[1642] in Release_7.7_team
Re: 8.2.17/8.2.18 patch release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas H. Grayson)
Mon Feb 8 21:56:49 1999
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>, Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>,
f_l@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU,
11.520staff@MIT.EDU, phils@MIT.EDU, karen@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Feb 1999 13:45:18 EST."
<199902041845.NAA03628@antharia.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 21:56:15 EST
From: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>
Unfortunately, I've run into a snag with the "hacked" attach. It needs to be
setuid root to work, but the 'crlbin' locker (where I've installed the
program) always mounts nosuid. Using 'attach -setuid crlbin' (with the
standard attach) does not work; it says I'm not authorized. What to do?
Tom Grayson
> OK. There are hacked attach binaries in the "fixes" locker for
> sun4x_56, sgi_62, sgi_63, and i386_linux2. They behave exactly like
> the release attach except that they ignore the rsize and wsize options
> in /etc/athena/attach.conf.
>
> I'd suggest just making the .attachrc in the 11.520 locker use this
> hacked attach to attach whatever lockers you need to use it for, and
> not mention it to the students at all. (For things that you need to
> "add", you can first attach them with the hacked attach, and then add
> them with the standard add alias.)
>
> If there are any problems with this, write back to release-team.
>
> -- Dan
