From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 5 14: 9:40 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 C22AA37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:09:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-4-cust210.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.10.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D569E43E42 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:09:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 189Bt0-0001co-00; Tue, 05 Nov 2002 22:09:26 +0000 Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 22:09:26 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Marcin Cieslak Cc: Kris Kennaway , FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: What is user uucp good for? Message-ID: <20021105220926.GB6129@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Marcin Cieslak , Kris Kennaway , FreeBSD current users References: <20021102054139.GE39842@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021103032757.GA14982@xor.obsecurity.org> <20021105205749.GA70604@barbera.system.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021105205749.GA70604@barbera.system.pl> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. X-message-flag-attribution: suresh, sdm. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:57:50PM +0100, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > Kris Kennaway (kris@obsecurity.org) napisa?(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 :-) For that matter, do we still need xten, a user who has been pushed so far to the edge of obscurity that it's home directory doesn't even exist on a freshly installed system (and I'm not talking about /nonexistent). Ceri -- Zoom! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message