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From: kamat@uceng.UC.EDU (Govind N. Kamat)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: HDB Permissions question
Keywords: HDB, question, Permissions
Message-ID: <1395@uceng.UC.EDU>
Date: 4 Jul 89 23:21:38 GMT
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Organization: Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Engg.
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I recently began using HDB on our system, and am rather confused about
the difference between LOGNAME and MACHINE entries in Permissions.
The impression I got after going through the rather sparse
documentation is that an entry of the form

LOGNAME=Uremote MACHINE=remote \
READ=/usr/spool/uucppublic WRITE=/usr/spool/uucppublic

would restrict file transactions to the PUBDIR directory.

However, I find that both

$ uucp /etc/rc remote!~; and
$ uucp remote!~/rc /usr/tmp/

seem to have no problems succeeding.

Could someone illuminate me on what this is supposed to mean?  It's
probably something very straightforward, so please e-mail...
Thanks very much.
-- 
Govind N. Kamat 			College of Engineering
kamat@uceng.UC.EDU			University of Cincinnati
					Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA