netconfig and root access problem

[nospam]

Hello all -

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?

Thanks,
bruce

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

nospam typed (on Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:24:27PM +0000):

What does 'id' report?

--
JP

[Bela Lubkin]

bruce radtke wrote:

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<

[nospam]

Bela & JP -
Thanks all for the reply.
Running "id" showed that I was logged in as "luid=0(qwerty)".
There was a hack of the passwd file by someone who placed the user qwerty
with root access.
I believe this was by another developer who was testing some installation
scripts being written for an installation setup script.
I've removed the entry from the passwd file and I can now run netconfig
correctly.
Thanks,
bruce

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