[8291] in Athena Bugs
(RTPC) Version 7.3M: rdist needs uid->name mapping
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark W. Eichin)
Sun Sep 29 08:45:38 1991
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 91 08:46:22 -0400
From: "Mark W. Eichin" <eichin@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
System type, version: (RTPC) Version 7.3M
System name: bill-the-cat
What's wrong:
% rdist -c src foo.bar:src/tcsh
updating host foo.bar
src: no password entry for uid
installing: src
% ls -lLdg src
drwxr-xr-x 4 marc wheel 8192 Sep 27 23:43 src/
% ls -HlLdg src
drwxr-xr-x 4 #8888 wheel 8192 Sep 27 23:43 src/
What should have happened:
Since we don't *have* uid entries for most files in the local passwd
files on Athena workstations, either
1) the uid check should be relaxed, and rdist should just punt
that functionality if it can't support it
2) rdist should be enhanced to do hesiod lookups like ls was.
_Mark_ <eichin@athena.mit.edu>
MIT Student Information Processing Board
