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- From: lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
- Subject: Re: AIX TELNET problem
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- In-Reply-To: meilak@qut.edu.au's message of 16 Dec 92 14:12:54 EST
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:09:51 GMT
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- meilak@qut.edu.au writes:
- > We have a AIX 3.2 Powerstation 220 (RS6000) with a telnet problem.
- > When a normal user tries to telnet to another host eg: $telnet hostname
- > the command just returns with return code 1 and produces the following
- > error in syslog: telnet: auditproc: Not owner.
- >
- > When root does a telnet, it works, no problems.
-
- /bin/telnet needs to be suid root; if it's not, you'll get this error.
- chown root.system /bin/telnet; chmod 4555 /bin/telnet
- should clear this up.
-
- -Lucien
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