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From: "Mike Hoskins" <mike@adept.org>

> i may just be thinking of another case, or not thinking at all...  but i
> recall buildworld issues if certain users weren't in the password file.
> (granted, this memory is coming from 2-3 years ago.)  as a result, i've

This is true - a buildworld fails if there's no uucp user (I got caught out
some time back):

[mail] /dev $ ls -l | grep uucp
crw-rw----   1 uucp      dialer     28, 128 Jan  2  1999 cuaa0
crw-rw----   1 uucp      dialer     28, 129 Jan  2  1999 cuaa1
crw-rw----   1 uucp      dialer     28, 130 Jan  2  1999 cuaa2
crw-rw----   1 uucp      dialer     28, 131 Jan  2  1999 cuaa3
crw-rw----   1 uucp      dialer     28, 160 Jan  2  1999 cuaia0
crw-rw----   1 uucp      dialer     28, 161 Jan  2  1999 cuaia1
crw-rw----   1 uucp      dialer     28, 162 Jan  2  1999 cuaia2
crw-rw----   1 uucp      dialer     28, 163 Jan  2  1999 cuaia3
crw-rw----   1 uucp      dialer     28, 192 Jan  2  1999 cuala0
crw-rw----   1 uucp      dialer     28, 193 Jan  2  1999 cuala1
crw-rw----   1 uucp      dialer     28, 194 Jan  2  1999 cuala2
crw-rw----   1 uucp      dialer     28, 195 Jan  2  1999 cuala3
crw-rw----   1 uucp      dialer    124,   0 Jan  2  1999 umodem0


Cheers

--george