From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 5 14: 6:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6371237B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:06:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from barbera.system.pl (barbera.system.pl [62.233.129.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D58143E6E for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:06:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from saper@barbera.system.pl) Received: from barbera.system.pl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by barbera.system.pl (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gA5KvoKs071893; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:57:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from saper@barbera.system.pl) Received: (from saper@localhost) by barbera.system.pl (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id gA5KvoAO071892; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:57:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from saper) Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 21:57:50 +0100 From: Marcin Cieslak To: Kris Kennaway Cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: What is user uucp good for? Message-ID: <20021105205749.GA70604@barbera.system.pl> Mail-Followup-To: Kris Kennaway , FreeBSD current users References: <20021102054139.GE39842@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021103032757.GA14982@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021103032757.GA14982@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org) napisa=B3(a): > On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 04:11:39PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > A number of base system utilities and ports still use it for access to > the serial port devices (which are owned by the uucp user). Really, > the uucp user is now misnamed and should be called something like Let's leave it like it is. Maybe future generations will wonder what it is named after similarly to GCOS field in passwd today :-) --=20 << Marcin Cieslak // saper@system.pl >> --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBPcgwzT2W2v2wY27ZAQGjGwQAn496mFPpxiMbWUk4HZdrkG4S4/r0e2ci ygzByKfuPDzdRAelewRxFZnwBYgEscvHgbNvjwTVlsQabyM0XSaBLH9ti96OBnyN oLHYVpCneDfq863qsG8FDvtKvDNww6rKHB8CEo+WwgAJMGypNvQdtV+BOaUt0mBI UBDH/wv1HFg= =6wfz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message