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Date:      Thu, 29 May 1997 22:19:08 +0200
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: uucp uid's
Message-ID:  <19970529221908.FX28346@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199705291019.UAA00460@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>; from David Nugent on May 29, 1997 20:19:16 %2B1000
References:  <19970529083654.WR06258@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705291019.UAA00460@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>

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> I'm one. Why do the uid's need to be the same? There isn't a permissions
> problem because:
> 
> davidn[~]> l /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico
> -r-sr-sr-x  1 uucp  dialer  212992 May 12 20:16 /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico*
>    ^  ^

But group dialer is only there so it can get ahold of the modems.

I don't think there's a burning need why all the uucpers should have
the same UID, but i figure it doesn't hurt either.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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