Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:34:51 -0600 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com> To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp user shell and home directory Message-ID: <200110032034.f93KYp8f031893@atg.aciworldwide.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> of "Wed, 03 Oct 2001 14:12:25 MDT." <15291.28969.437046.367082@nomad.yogotech.com>
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> Do you mean 'full-time IP connectivity', because if you can setup a UUCP > connection, you can just as easily setup a PPP connection over the same > medium, giving you IP connectivity. True, but there's a lot more infrastructure overhead involved in setting up a group of disconnected machines via dialup IP than there is connecting them via UUCP. And where dialup time is precious UUCP is the hands-down winner for not wasting any of that dialup resource. > therefore doesn't belong in the mainstream release. It *is* still > available as an add-on port, so those who need it can still get it So the base distribution contains /bin/sh, /sbin/init, and /sbin/pkg_add? Me, I like my bikesheds painted in white and green zebra stripes. > Finally, the security > issues make it a non-starter to keep in the default distribution. I would like to see evidence of where --config is *required* to make someone's UUCP setup work. And what percentage of the overall UUCP user population are represented by those people? I still contend the "problem" can be fixed by removing --config. While that fix will apparently impact some people, the impact of that fix is a lot lower than ripping out UUCP altogether. --lyndon We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. -- Robert Wilensky, University of California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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