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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!quagga.ru.ac.za!ucthpx!ucthpx!not-for-mail From: pvh@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (P van Heusden) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: SLIP under FreeBSD 1.0e Date: 23 Aug 1994 14:18:45 +0200 Organization: University of Cape Town Lines: 13 Message-ID: <33cpf5$qsu@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> References: <339umi$l0@ucthpx.uct.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: ucthpx.uct.ac.za Thanks to all those who helped. It turned out to be a permissions problem. I was setting /etc/slip.login to +x for root, but sliplogin (which is running setuid root, so can actually run the script) uses the access() function to check if the file is executable, which checks against the real, not the effective, uid. Cheers, Peter -- ************************************************************************* Peter van Heusden | UCT ITS/TSS |Even if lunch isn't free, pvh@ucthpx.uct.ac.za|I don't speak for UCT |maybe we can share breakfast.