Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 12:01:51 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: uucp uid's Message-ID: <199705291901.MAA20045@seagull.rtd.com> 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
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