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From: jpr@jpradley.uucp (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: No Passwd for nuucp
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.203150.13610@jpradley.uucp>
Date: 27 Oct 90 20:31:50 GMT
References: <1990Oct22.211639.14436@mccc.uucp>
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
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In article <1990Oct22.211639.14436@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>I'd like to have nuucp with no passwd for anonymous uucp possibilities
>but my SV/386 R3.2.2 insists on asking nuucp to choose a password!  How
>can I convince UNIX that nuucp doesn't need a password?

I assume that the "insisting" comes from a mkuser or addusr or similar program?

Anyways, what if you just give it a password and then edit it out of
/etc/passwd?

BTW, what's the point of 'nuucp' as a public, unpassworded access instead of
just plain 'uucp'?
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