From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 29 13:27:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA07285 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 13:27:14 -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 NAA07278 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 13:27:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA16638 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 29 May 1997 22:27:04 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA05101; Thu, 29 May 1997 22:19:08 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970529221908.FX28346@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 22:19:08 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp uid's References: <19970529083654.WR06258@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705291019.UAA00460@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> 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: <199705291019.UAA00460@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>; from David Nugent on May 29, 1997 20:19:16 +1000 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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* > ^ ^ But group dialer is only there so it can get ahold of the modems. I don't think there's a burning need why all the uucpers should have the same UID, but i figure it doesn't hurt either. -- 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. ;-)