From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 1 13:27:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shell.ataris.co.za (shell.ataris.co.za [196.15.138.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6679937B40A for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 13:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jacques by shell.ataris.co.za with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15o9es-0001vn-00; Mon, 01 Oct 2001 22:27:22 +0200 Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:27:22 +0200 From: Jacques To: Garrett Wollman Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory Message-ID: <20011001222722.A2598@serenity.org.za> References: <20011001173343.D57416@sunbay.com> <200110011751.f91HpW8f014902@atg.aciworldwide.com> <200110011800.f91I0u053253@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110011800.f91I0u053253@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from Garrett Wollman on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 02:00:56PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD shell.ataris.co.za 4.3-STABLE FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE 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 On Mon Oct 1 14:00:56 2001 Garrett Wollman wrote: > < 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 > There are many schools in South Africa who use UUCP for their mail, since they have dial-up connections. Organisations like the Western Cape Schools' Network, and various others provide these UUCP feeds. There is a software package called Thurn (for MS-DOS) and Taxis (for Win32) which incluses the UUCP/extended software. For more informaton about taxis look @ http://www.wcape.school.za/taxis/ The UUCP solution works well in the educational environment as well as in corporate environments. YMMV. Regards --jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message