From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 16:19:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.austclear.com.au (ns1.austclear.com.au [192.43.185.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D800A37B40E for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 16:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.166.65]) by ns1.austclear.com.au (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8RNJWv84999; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:19:32 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.166.65]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA25409; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:19:32 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200109272319.JAA25409@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Odhiambo Washington Cc: FBSD-Q Subject: Re: Setting up UUCP In-Reply-To: Message from Odhiambo Washington of "Thu, 27 Sep 2001 12:26:15 +0300." <20010927122615.A15185@ns2.wananchi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:19:32 +1000 From: Tony Landells 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 Hey Wash! I assume you've read the recent discussion on the security problems of UUCP... You also understand that UUCP provides file transfer and remote execution; it doesn't provide logins and shells? Assuming that's what you want, then yes the "login" part of it involves setting up a user with a shell of /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico. Of course, they also need all the associated UUCP subsystem setup (look at the *.sample files in /etc/uucp). I still run UUCP for one particular environment, but I have to say that for almost every application today, it is NOT the answer (and I'm actually in the process of retiring it). Cheers Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message