Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 22:09:26 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Marcin Cieslak <saper@system.pl> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: What is user uucp good for? Message-ID: <20021105220926.GB6129@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20021105205749.GA70604@barbera.system.pl> References: <20021102054139.GE39842@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021103032757.GA14982@xor.obsecurity.org> <20021105205749.GA70604@barbera.system.pl>
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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
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