Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: Where does getty get its information? Message-ID: <28108620.1309@tct.com> Date: 20 Apr 91 18:19:12 GMT References: <1991Apr11.222123.36169@edm.uucp> <6635@awdprime.UUCP> <1991Apr18.184800.26770@edm.uucp> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 11 According to geoff@edm.uucp (Geoff Coleman): > If this were done then tsm/login/getty when it respawns on a port could >change the ownership to that attribute. This would seem to then allow the >uucp programs to not have to be owned by root. I have a simpler solution: make uucico getuid-uucp and setgid-system. Since the ports are mode 664 it works fine. -- Brand X Industries Custodial, Refurbishing and Containment Service: When You Never, Ever Want To See It Again [tm] Chip Salzenberg ,