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From: rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: No Passwd for nuucp
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.191630.11678@digibd.com>
Date: 28 Nov 90 19:16:30 GMT
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In article <1990Nov03.153644.549@dream.sublink.ORG> marlor@dream.sublink.ORG (Marco Lorenzini) writes:
>In <1990Nov01.183404.285@am.sublink.org> alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli) writes:
>
>No, on Sco Unix your hack don't work also with C2 security relaxed.
>With Sco any user MUST have own password if want to be able to log
>on the system.
>

	While I haven't tried nuucp, I've set up SCO UNIX 3.2v2.0 systems
	where ROOT doesn't have a password and things work just fine.
	Maybe it's that psuedo users, like nuucp, must have passwords?
	Try opening the nuucp account as a user rather than a psuedo
	account.

	By the way, these systems are used in a test lab so it doesn't
	matter that root has no password...

			-Rob

Speaking for self, not company.