From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 28 23:51:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA29257 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 28 May 1997 23:51:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA29248 for ; Wed, 28 May 1997 23:51:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA05913 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Thu, 29 May 1997 08:51:20 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA03202; Thu, 29 May 1997 08:36:55 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970529083654.WR06258@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 08:36:54 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: uucp uid's References: <199705282100.OAA04001@seagull.rtd.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199705282100.OAA04001@seagull.rtd.com>; from Don Yuniskis on May 28, 1997 14:00:00 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Don Yuniskis wrote: > A bit of confusion on my part, perhaps... There's too much confusion about UUCP UIDs on any Unix i've seen so far. :) > Shouldn't the uucp uid be that of the uucp *administrator*? I've seen both. It's a pain in the butt on every system that you first gotta look who's who. > (i.e. the owner of the uucp files, processes, etc.). And, All the UIDs should be identical however, i.e. the UUCP administrator has the same UID and group as all the UUCP dialin accounts. I've never seen a system that doesn't handle it this way. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)