Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!rutgers!gatech!ncsuvx!ece-csc!ncrcae!cs-col!vause From: vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Sam Vause) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: REMOTE REJECT Failure Keywords: HDB SysV R3.1.2 Message-ID: <115@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM> Date: 12 Aug 88 11:45:43 GMT References: <749@mccc.UUCP> <218@pigs.UUCP> Reply-To: vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Sam Vause) Distribution: na Organization: NCR Customer Services Support Team, Columbia, SC Lines: 22 In article <218@pigs.UUCP> haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes: >In article <749@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes: >>Here's a portion of a debug file I got while trying to call a neighbor. >>He claims that he (a 3B2/400 running SysV R3) is set up as per the >>Nutshell UUCP book. Can anyone help us? Thanks. >[ stuff deleted ] >>imsg >^PRLOGIN^@msg-RLOGIN >>HANDSHAKE FAILED: REMOTE REJECT AFTER LOGIN >i had this just last week ;-). uucp is unable to read one of the >files that it needs. the problem i had was that uucico was SUID > ... I, too, have had this one recently. Took me nearly 6 hours to figure it out. Final solution: I had to add a "LOGNAME=nuucp" entry to the Permissions file for the "nuucp" login which was trying to call in.... +------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Sam Vause, NCR Corporation, Customer Services - TOWER Support | |3325 Platt Springs Road, West Columbia, SC 29169 (803) 791-6953 | | vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM | | ...!ucbvax!sdcsvax!ncr-sd!ncrcae!cs-col!vause | +------------------------------------------------------------------+