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sshd not setting LUID

From: Bela Lubkin <belal@sco.com>
Subject: Re: netconfig and root access problem
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 06:13:20 GMT
References: <vf%La.19182$C83.1828508@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net> 

bruce radtke wrote:

> If I try to run netconfig,  the system gives me an error message "(\) Must
> be root to run netconfig".
> 
> However, I am logged in as root.   This also occurs running scoadmin and
> selecting the 'Network Configuration Manager'.
> 
> I'm running SCO_SV 5.0.6.
> 
> Any ideas?

You're logged in via SSH, using an improperly built `sshd`?  What does
`id -l` show?  It should show "luid=0(root)".

If I'm right about the SSH connection, what you can do is use SSH to get
in to the system, then a loopback rlogin or telnet (`telnet 0`).  The
login you get that way will have its LUID correctly initialized and will
let you run netconfig etc.

>Bela<

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