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working with RCS after doing an su <login>

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From: Joerg-Cyril Hoehle
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:20
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I have installed RCS 5.6 on a Sun4 pool (IPC,IPX,SS2) and noticed that
RCS didn't work correctly with my changing user ID with the su
command. I'm not sure if I did something wrong at compile time, RCS is
not working suid or sgid here.

>Here part of an rlog output:
>RCS file: /home/hoehle/sspace/RCS/foo.lisp,v
>Working file: /home/hoehle/sspace/foo.lisp
>head: 1.4
>branch:
>locks: strict
>access list:
>	emacs
>	hoehle
>symbolic names:
>	initial: 1.1
>	zero: 1.1
>comment leader: ";;; "
>keyword substitution: kv
>total revisions: 4;	selected revisions: 4
>description:
>test of -i option
>----------------------------
>revision 1.4
>date: 1992/11/19 18:38:21;  author: hoehle;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -1
                                     ^^^^^^ this is not true, I did
"su emacs", and the emacs login became owner of the file foo.lisp.
>EMACS did this change
>----------------------------
>revision 1.3
>date: 1992/11/19 16:52:28;  author: hoehle;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -0
>hoehle did this change

Did I use wrong compile-time options? Is this the normal behavior for
RCS? I would expect RCS to honor the su command.

--
 	Joerg.
hoehle@inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.d
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From: hoehle@inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.DE (Joerg-Cyril Hoehle)
Subject: working with RCS after doing an su <login>
Message-ID: <1992Nov20.152035.106362@eratu.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
Summary: RCS ignores su login
Keywords: RCS, su, user, logname, uid
Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
Organization: Information Science, Univ. of Konstanz
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:20:35 GMT
Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
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