Greetings, all!

We are running UniVerse 11.3.4 on AIX 7.2.  We received the following error in the UniVerse errlog file:

      Fri Feb 17 15:24:34 -144 root /usr/ibm/uv/bin Failure to login as remote user.

There are only 3 of us that know the root password, but none of us were logged in.  Additionally, direct logins using the root user are not allowed by our system - neither through ssh nor through the software application we use (which comes in through uvapi and uvcs).  UV itself does run as root, though.  

How can it say that the login failed, when there's already a port number assigned?

The uv and unix logs have been checked, and so far there is no evidence of any connection made by the root user at that time.

What does the error actually mean?  Any info would help us figure out where to look to determine what happened.

Thanks!
Brian

Hi Brian,

That error is typically generated when attempting to access a file via UVNet when the credentials have not been set on the remote system. 

>LIST DENTRS.VOC
Failure to login as remote user.
Unable to open "DENTRS.VOC" file.
>

The file in the above example is a UVNet pointer to a remote system and SET.REMOTE.ID had not been used to set the credentials on that server. 

On the remote server I get a message in the errlog file like the following. I'm not sure why on your system that 'bin' is included in the uvhome pathname. Seems like a root user on another system attempted a UVNet connection?

Mon Feb 20 13:53:59  -14 root /disk1/uv Failure to login as remote user.

I have only seen that error related to UVNet and I'm not sure it can be generated in other situations.

Thanks,

Neil