Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!uunet!lll-winken!pacbell!ditka!kls
From: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: uucp Handshake error. . .
Summary: oops!
Message-ID: <4274@ditka.UUCP>
Date: 15 Sep 89 09:20:32 GMT
References: <2955@puff.cs.wisc.edu> <1218@mitisft.Convergent.COM> <4184@ditka.UUCP> <1989Sep13.160258.16400@cctb.wa.com>
Reply-To: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Organization: Inaction Central, Los Alamos, New Mexico
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In article <1989Sep13.160258.16400@cctb.wa.com> randy@cctb.wa.com (Randy Orrison) writes:
>In article <4184@ditka.UUCP> kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) writes:
>| In fact, each uucp login must have the *same* uid, as many
>| files which uucico needs to read are only readable by uucp.

>This isn't true, since uucico is setuid (or should be) to uucp.

Indeed, you're quite correct.  I spaced the fact that uucico
(and uuxqt) are setuid to uucp and thus there's no reason for
each uucp login to have the same uid.

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