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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: uucp uid's
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Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 14:00:00 -0700 (MST)
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Greetings!
    A bit of confusion on my part, perhaps...

    Shouldn't the uucp uid be that of the uucp *administrator*?
(i.e. the owner of the uucp files, processes, etc.).  And,
shouldn't *other& id's be created to actually *service*
uucp connections (e.g., nuucp, xuucp, Ufoo, Ubar, etc.)?

    As such, uucp's $HOME should be /etc/uucp and have a regular
shell -- while these other users (nuucp, etc.) would have
/var/spool/uucppublic (should that be /var/spool/uucp instead?)
and uucico, respectively, as their $HOME and shell?

Thanx!
--don