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Re: al_act_revert
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed Aug 30 16:05:53 2000
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To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2000 21:05:32 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:05:46 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> Aug 29 20:13:11 [DELIVERATOR.MIT.EDU] dm: al_acct_revert(, 115461): Permission denied while modifying system files
I think the problem is that dm calls al_acct_revert() even when there
is no entry for the tty in utmp, in which case the user name it passes
will be trash. I'll submit a patch.
Bob
