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From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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Subject: Re: Routed supports variable-length netmasks?
To: mnewell@kaizen.net (Mike Newell)
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 11:58:32 -0500 (CDT)
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> On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Joe Greco wrote:
> 
> > Yeah yeah that's the ticket.  Verrrry familiar problem.
> > 
> > I believe I hacked a copy of route to fix this problem and installed it as
> > /etc/ppp/route...
> 
> That's what I had planned to do, but I wasn't sure if something else would
> break if I just took out the UID checks.  If it works for you, I'll start
> hack'n tonight.  :-)

I _believe_ that that was my fix - I think the kernel routing code works
correctly and it was just a problem with the userland program.  If not, 
try adding a "seteuid(0,0)" call in there somewhere.

... JG