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From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: uucp uid's
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 12:01:51 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <19970529190015.FX15381@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 29, 97 07:00:15 pm
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Greetings!

> > I have a couple of (older) SysV derivatives that had uucp own the
> > files and nuucp be the working "public" login.
> 
> Yep, but i've also seen systems where it's been just reversed.  (I
> think DG/UX came this way in version 4.3x, probably due to BSD
> history, and maybe even swapped them in version 5.4x to increase the
> degree of confusion.)

Undoubtedly!  :-(  Seems like everyone wants to break it in a slightly
different way!  :>

> > Having the administrative id the same as the working id I guess is just
> > annoying since it doesn't allow you to 'su - uucp' before modifying
> > any of the configuration files of creating new directories.
> 
> `su -m uucp' should work though.

With the exception of having to move into /etc/uucp manually instead
of letting $HOME do it for you...

I guess it's just a matter of what you're accustomed to!
--don