From: amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli) Subject: Re: sls 99 user problems Date: 27 Dec 1992 09:02:24 GMT
woody@cs.utexas.edu (James Woodgate) writes:
...
>I had all these problems also, until I changed the permission bits
>for /etc/passwd.
>As root type:
>> chmod og+r /etc/passwd
Aha! THAT was why I couldn't use uucp & friends... since they're
set-userid to uucp, they were unable to read /etc/passwd, hence the
failure in getpwnam() and getpwuid(), even though I invoked them from
root! The chmod fixed it at last...
Alex