From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 10:59:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BCD37B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:59:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-52.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE2AA43F93 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:59:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BBC266D9C; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:59:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1F9899F4; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:59:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:59:14 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: George Barnett Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uucp Message-ID: <20030312185914.GA86851@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <031701c2e88e$cf9fed80$c74608c3@spoem> <03de01c2e8ad$5b36cee0$c74608c3@spoem> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03de01c2e8ad$5b36cee0$c74608c3@spoem> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:37:57PM -0000, George Barnett wrote: > From: "Christian Weisgerber" >=20 > > > Now, I can either go and add the user UUCP.. > > > > Do so. Why did you remove it in the first place? >=20 > I have no use for anything to do with uucp. Why should the user remain on > the system if they're not going to be doing anything? Because the uucp user is still used to own devices and files related to serial port locking: > > This says "do not build uucp related programs". It does not say > > to ignore every traditional usage of the user "uucp" for serial > > locking etc. Kris --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+b4OBWry0BWjoQKURAikcAJ9NYQEt3EkabgpYDerIK3Uztb4MTACgxOrV 7XpsqFiqbWmhPcKSr8IDkZ4= =5+DV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message