From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 6 14:10:36 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 6E36537B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:10:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from firefly.lemis.com (CPE-203-51-24-236.nsw.bigpond.net.au [203.51.24.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BAE243E42 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 14:10:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@firefly.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by firefly.lemis.com (8.11.3/8.9.3) id gA6M7mM00641; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:37:48 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 08:37:48 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Marcin Cieslak Cc: Kris Kennaway , FreeBSD current users Subject: Re: What is user uucp good for? Message-ID: <20021107083747.B592@firefly.lemis.com> 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 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20021105205749.GA70604@barbera.system.pl>; from saper@system.pl on Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:57:50PM +0100 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 Tuesday, 5 November 2002 at 21:57:50 +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 :-) At the very least we should change the shell. But Kris' suggestions sound the best. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message