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Date:      Sun, 14 May 1995 13:17:24 +0400 (MSD)
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, terry@cs.weber.edu, uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com
Subject:   Re: Taylor UUCP
Message-ID:  <vJagSjlaZ2@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <199505140424.OAA13885@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans at Sun, 14 May 1995 14:24:31 %2B1000
References:  <199505140424.OAA13885@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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In message <199505140424.OAA13885@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans
    writes:

>>>uuchk and uuconv, but these are installed in the wrong place
>>>/usr/libexec/uucp with the wrong ownership uucp:uucp and the wrong
>>>permissions 550.

>>Wrong place: agree.
>>Mode and permissions: disagree.
>>Normal user must not be able to see phones and passwords from
>>system configuration.

>Phones and passwords are in /etc/uucp, not in libexec/uucp :-).

Shure. Both uuchk and uuconv operates in /etc/uucp.

>The programs aren't setuid so they can't read /etc/uucp/* unless
>run by root.

/etc/uucp must be owned by uucp, it doesn't?

-- 
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