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[bug-inetutils] rcmd glitch in modified rsh


From: David Mathog
Subject: [bug-inetutils] rcmd glitch in modified rsh
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 16:08:33 -0800

I have a modified rsh based on inetutils-1.4.2 which can do this:

% /usr/common/bin/rsh host1,host2,host3 hostname
host1.cluster
host2.cluster
host3.cluster

or, at least it can do that as root. As a normal user it
does instead:

/usr/common/bin/rsh host1,host2,host3 hostname
host1.cluster
rcmd: socket: Permission denied

where the rcmd message comes from this line:

  rem = rcmd (&host, sp->s_port, pw->pw_name, user, args, &rfd2);

I've verified that the arguments to the rcmd call are the same
for the second host for both root and the unpriv'd user.  (And
exactly the same as for the first host except for the &host part).

The protections seem reasonable on the modified rsh:

# ls -al /usr/common/bin/rsh
-r-sr-xr-x    1 root     root          61k Apr  4 15:59 

So what is it about a regular user which prevents them from
calling rcmd twice sequentially with a different "host" value???

This is on RH 7.3.


Thanks,


David Mathog
address@hidden
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech




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