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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: uucp uid's
References: <19970529083654.WR06258@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705291612.JAA06181@seagull.rtd.com>
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As Don Yuniskis wrote:

> I have a couple of (older) SysV derivatives that had uucp own the
> files and nuucp be the working "public" login.

Yep, but i've also seen systems where it's been just reversed.  (I
think DG/UX came this way in version 4.3x, probably due to BSD
history, and maybe even swapped them in version 5.4x to increase the
degree of confusion.)

> Having the administrative id the same as the working id I guess is just
> annoying since it doesn't allow you to 'su - uucp' before modifying
> any of the configuration files of creating new directories.

`su -m uucp' should work though.

-- 
cheers, J"org

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