Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 19:00:15 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: uucp uid's Message-ID: <19970529190015.FX15381@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199705291612.JAA06181@seagull.rtd.com>; from Don Yuniskis on May 29, 1997 09:12:03 -0700 References: <19970529083654.WR06258@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199705291612.JAA06181@seagull.rtd.com>
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As Don Yuniskis wrote: > I have a couple of (older) SysV derivatives that had uucp own the > files and nuucp be the working "public" login. Yep, but i've also seen systems where it's been just reversed. (I think DG/UX came this way in version 4.3x, probably due to BSD history, and maybe even swapped them in version 5.4x to increase the degree of confusion.) > Having the administrative id the same as the working id I guess is just > annoying since it doesn't allow you to 'su - uucp' before modifying > any of the configuration files of creating new directories. `su -m uucp' should work though. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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