One solution is this:
on AIX look in /etc/services, it has "writesrv" running on port 2401
This is apparently how IBM decided to implement the "write" command
which allows users to "write" messages to each other's ttys. Probably
nobody uses this command at your site, since pretty much nobody
uses this command anywhere. Just get rid of the writesrv process and
change /etc/services to give cvs port 2401.
There is an entry in /etc/inittab that starts writesrv...
Get rid of that too, and kill the writesrv process.
(I'm new to AIX, (< 3 weeks) but this is how it appears to me.
As for password shadowing...Hmm. not sure.
there are no encrypted passwords in my /etc/passwd file, only
"!" for every password "man 2 getspnam" comes up empty, and
config.cache indicates "configure" couldn't find getspnam() either.
And there is no /etc/shadow file. So I don't know where IBM has
decided to keep the passwords.
So I suspect using system passwords on aix may be broken,
but I haven't tried it since I'm only running CVS as a client on aix.
Hope it helps some.
-- steve
> -----Original Message-----
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: pserver problems
>
>
>
> CVSers,
>
> Hi! Can anyone please provide me with more information about the AIX 2401
> port
> patch?
>
> Will the system password lookup fail if the encrypted password is not kept
> in
> /etc/passwd (i.e. there is password shadowing)??
> (pserver access; in CVSROOT/config we have SystemAuth = yes). Does AIX
> default
> to password shadowing?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> aditya
>
