Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!usc!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!budd From: budd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Philip Budne) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Somebody invoked uucico -x9 to osu-cis... Message-ID: <38096@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: 14 Sep 89 02:44:34 GMT References: <609@ccssrv.UUCP> Reply-To: budd@bu-it.bu.edu (Phil Budne) Organization: Boston University Lines: 16 karl@godiva.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: >perry@ccssrv.uucp writes: > uucico could be patched such that setting -x does _not_ automagically put > the _remote_ end into -x mode. >Probably. However, I am unimpressed with hacking UUCP source. Unless >I think of some better solution, I will leave it as I have currently >made it, with the relevant dirs/files chmod'd to prevent them being >opened for write. Other archive admins might wish to do the same. Perhaps a better idea is to implement (in BNU-ish/HDB-ese) a MAXDEBUG variable in the Permissions file. Then you can limit "auditing" on a per-system and/or per-login basis. -Phil