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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
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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....

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