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From: peter@sundist.essex.ac.uk	 (Allott P)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re uudecode
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Date: 6 Jul 89 11:14:27 GMT
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Thanks to all who pointed out that the permision denied problem
is due to uudecode being setuid to uucp.

No-one has come up with why it is setuid in the first place.
Taking setuid off certainly fixes my problem.