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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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