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Date:      Thu, 29 May 1997 14:38:20 -0700 (MST)
From:      Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: uucp uid's
Message-ID:  <199705292138.OAA08658@seagull.rtd.com>
In-Reply-To: <19970529221908.FX28346@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 29, 97 10:19:08 pm

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It seems that J Wunsch said:
> 
> > 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.

It's nicer if they have different uid's -- lets you be a bit more
restrictive of the types of access you grant to each.  Also lets
you see who's doing what...

--don



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