Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 17:38:18 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp uid's Message-ID: <199705300038.RAA05637@phaeton.artisoft.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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> > 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 matters if you are using it as a mail transport, and the mail is being transported to the uucp sppol directory .. owned by uucp. General users are not supposed to run uucico anyway. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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