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Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 20:19:16 +1000
From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes:
>  Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
>  > (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.

I'm one. Why do the uid's need to be the same? There isn't a permissions
problem because:

davidn[~]> l /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico
-r-sr-sr-x  1 uucp  dialer  212992 May 12 20:16 /usr/libexec/uucp/uucico*
   ^  ^

I've been operating this way for years since first using Taylor-uucp
under ISC UNIX in 1991, and it doesn't seem to be a problem
for either tcp or dialup connections.

Cheers,
David

David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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