[5745] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Synctree Errors
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Mon Jan 22 10:31:39 1996
To: Yoav Yerushalmi <yoav@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-afsreq@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jan 1996 04:12:47 EST."
<199601220912.EAA04041@i-see-everything-twice.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 10:31:16 EST
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
>> The only weirdness I noticed about the file is that it is in fact setuid
>> root. However, other setuid programs (from sun4bin for example) don't
>> suffer from this problem. It's not a big thing, and I can put an ignore
>> line in the rconf file, but I'd rather it worked...
This is, in fact, the problem. The usual approach (on other
platforms) is to have someone on afsreq (not sipb-afsreq) copy the
binary to the athena cell and make it setuid whenever it needs
updating.
Jonathon
