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From: jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: No Passwd for nuucp
Message-ID: <1990Oct28.173722.1824@turnkey.tcc.com>
Date: 28 Oct 90 17:37:22 GMT
References: <1990Oct22.211639.14436@mccc.uucp> <1990Oct27.203150.13610@jpradley.uucp>
Reply-To: jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Westchester, CA
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In article <1990Oct27.203150.13610@jpradley.uucp> jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
 
>BTW, what's the point of 'nuucp' as a public, unpassworded access instead of
>just plain 'uucp'?

Because everything in /usr/lib/uucp including such things as Systems and
Permissions is owned and readable by uucp. Would you like other sites snagging
a copy of those files :-}.


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