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Date:      Sat, 31 May 1997 10:55:54 -0700 (MST)
From:      Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
To:        ponds!ponds!rivers (Thomas David Rivers)
Cc:        ponds!rtd.com!dgy, ponds!ponds!Mole.ORG!mrm, ponds!ponds!rtd.com!dgy, ponds!ponds!FreeBSD.ORG!hackers, ponds!ponds!uriah.heep.sax.de!joerg_wunsch
Subject:   Re: uucp uid's
Message-ID:  <199705311755.KAA03529@seagull.rtd.com>
In-Reply-To: <199705311124.HAA15341@lakes.water.net> from "Thomas David Rivers" at May 31, 97 07:24:46 am

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It seems that Thomas David Rivers said:

> > Yes.  And a good deal of the population doesn't have direct IP
> > connectivity, etc.
> > 
> > --don
> 
>  Yes - I'd have to agree - since UUCP is my primary connection to
> the-rest-of-the-world.
> 
>  By the way, I've had as many as 16 UUCP neighbors.  In recent years,
> this has dwindled to about 3 or 4.
> 
>  I gave each a separate account (so they could each have their own
> passwd and UID.) e.g.:

[argh!  I'll avoid the "account", "uid", "login", etc. semantic issue...]

> 	Uxxxxx  for machine 'xxxxx'
> 	Uyyyyy  for machine 'yyyyy'
> 	Uzzzzz  for machine 'zzzzz'

I opted for a lowercase `u' primarily so mail to that login gets handled
well.

> but they have the same home directory.  One advantage of this is that,
> at any given time, I can see who is dialed in and decide if I want
> to kick them off to use the modem myself :-) (just use who.)

Ah, never thought of *that*!  :>

--don



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