From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 1 11: 5: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B164237B403 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 11:01:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f91I0u053253; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:00:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:00:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200110011800.f91I0u053253@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Lyndon Nerenberg Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory In-Reply-To: <200110011751.f91HpW8f014902@atg.aciworldwide.com> References: <20011001173343.D57416@sunbay.com> <200110011751.f91HpW8f014902@atg.aciworldwide.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > And you should *never* allow remote site UUCP logins (those that run > uucico) under the `uucp' login, for obvious security reasons. I remember, back in the mists of ancient time, it was common practice to provide ``anonymous UUCP'' service along the lines of anonymous FTP in (what was at that time) ARPANET. I find it hard to imagine anyone doing so today, but OTOH I find it hard to imagine anyone using UUCP at all today, so it is obviously my imagination which has failed rather than reality. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message