Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 10:55:54 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> To: ponds!ponds!rivers (Thomas David Rivers) Cc: ponds!rtd.com!dgy, ponds!ponds!Mole.ORG!mrm, ponds!ponds!rtd.com!dgy, ponds!ponds!FreeBSD.ORG!hackers, ponds!ponds!uriah.heep.sax.de!joerg_wunsch Subject: Re: uucp uid's Message-ID: <199705311755.KAA03529@seagull.rtd.com> In-Reply-To: <199705311124.HAA15341@lakes.water.net> from "Thomas David Rivers" at May 31, 97 07:24:46 am
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It seems that Thomas David Rivers said: > > Yes. And a good deal of the population doesn't have direct IP > > connectivity, etc. > > > > --don > > Yes - I'd have to agree - since UUCP is my primary connection to > the-rest-of-the-world. > > By the way, I've had as many as 16 UUCP neighbors. In recent years, > this has dwindled to about 3 or 4. > > I gave each a separate account (so they could each have their own > passwd and UID.) e.g.: [argh! I'll avoid the "account", "uid", "login", etc. semantic issue...] > Uxxxxx for machine 'xxxxx' > Uyyyyy for machine 'yyyyy' > Uzzzzz for machine 'zzzzz' I opted for a lowercase `u' primarily so mail to that login gets handled well. > but they have the same home directory. One advantage of this is that, > at any given time, I can see who is dialed in and decide if I want > to kick them off to use the modem myself :-) (just use who.) Ah, never thought of *that*! :> --don
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