REMOTE REJECT Failure

[Sam Vause]

In article <218 at pigs.UUCP> haugj at pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie) writes:
>In article <749 at mccc.UUCP> pjh at mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>>Here's a portion of a debug file I got while trying to call a neighbor. 
>>He claims that he (a 3B2/400 running SysV R3) is set up as per the
>>Nutshell UUCP book.  Can anyone help us?  Thanks.
>[ stuff deleted ]
>>imsg >^PRLOGIN^@msg-RLOGIN
>>HANDSHAKE FAILED: REMOTE REJECT AFTER LOGIN
>i had this just last week ;-).  uucp is unable to read one of the
>files that it needs.  the problem i had was that uucico was SUID
> ...

I, too, have had this one recently.  Took me nearly 6 hours to figure it out.
Final solution:  I had to add a "LOGNAME=nuucp" entry to the Permissions file
for the "nuucp" login which was trying to call in....

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