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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: No Passwd for nuucp
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.180319.4025@mccc.uucp>
Date: 5 Nov 90 18:03:19 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?

	Well, you could be jailed!  :-)
	
=Is the scheme for nuucp to give it a different uid/gid?

	I give all the "uucico accounts" on mccc different uids but put
them in the same group.  This allows me to keep track of who does what
and when.

Pete
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