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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: uucp USERFILE entry - Ultrix1.2
Message-ID: <991@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Nov-86 12:06:48 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.991
Posted: Sat Nov 15 12:06:48 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Nov-86 01:22:14 EST
References: <1490@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 21
Keywords: uucp
Summary: DIY

In article <1490@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> hurf@batcomputer.UUCP (Hurf Sheldon) writes:
>
>    uusetup prepends a 'U' to the system name in the USERFILE & that seems
>to need to be there in /etc/passwd  as well. do the subsequent directories
>in /usr/spool/uucp/sys also need the 'U'  prepended or can(or should) the
>'U' be deleted  to make it all work? Uusetup also makes  all  the /etc/passwd
>entries uid:gid 4:2  for uucp systems. What gives here?  What is the correct
>setup? - the documentation is ambiguous on this point & the 'U' isn't
>mentioned to my knowledge.
>     Hurf Sheldon			Arpa.css: hurf@ionvax.tn.cornell.edu

If you want to use 'user-friendly' setup procudures, you're stuck with
simplistic conventions.  But (so far) there's nothing in ultrix to keep you
from setting up USERFILE and the like however you wish to.

Anybody know the time table for DEC announcing VMS compatibility features for
Ultrix...sigh... 8-)
-- 
George Robbins - now working for,	uucp: {ihnp4|seismo|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr
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