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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: uucp uid's
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 17:38:18 -0700 (MST)
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In-Reply-To: <19970529221908.FX28346@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at May 29, 97 10:19:08 pm
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> > 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.

It matters if you are using it as a mail transport, and the mail
is being transported to the uucp sppol directory .. owned by uucp.

General users are not supposed to run uucico anyway.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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