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From: rwhite@nusdecs.uucp (0257014-Robert White(140))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: No Passwd for nuucp
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.223119.5548@nusdecs.uucp>
Date: 7 Nov 90 22:31:19 GMT
References: <1990Oct27.203150.13610@jpradley.uucp> <1990Oct28.220148.13034@mccc.uucp> <1990Nov4.213500.13805@jpradley.uucp>
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In article <1990Nov4.213500.13805@jpradley.uucp> jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>On my machine, uucp, uucpmgr, Umurphy, Uhombre, Utrigere, and many others all
>have the same uid/gid. 
>Is this bad?
>Is the scheme for nuucp to give it a different uid/gid?

If you wan to do much of the stuff with the permissions file,
especially reguarding VALIDATE, you will want to have a
different uid number for each group of machines.

I use uucp:5:5; nuucp:10:10 (<=defaults) and x:11:10; y:12:10 etc...

I find that different user IDs and the same group ID to be most
convinent.  Especially when I get around to RFS stuff (later)


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