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From: avolio@decuac.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Ultrix & uucp
Message-ID: <1198@decuac.DEC.COM>
Date: Tue, 3-Mar-87 09:26:37 EST
Article-I.D.: decuac.1198
Posted: Tue Mar  3 09:26:37 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Mar-87 20:31:43 EST
References: <32200002@mcorp> <1094@wor-mein.UUCP>
Organization: DEC SWS, Landover, MD
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Summary: NO! NO! NO!  NOT A BUG!!!

In article <1094@wor-mein.UUCP>, dave@wor-mein.UUCP (Dave Axness) writes:
> A problem that we had was that the uucpsetup script assigned a user ID for 
> the machine you were polling ( Uosu-eddie ) that was not unique.  It used the
> same ID as for the uucp login.  Check your passwd file and make sure that
> your user ID is unique.

That is not a problem, it is a feature!  No kidding.  All of our uucp
logins have unique names and passwords but the same bloody UID and it
works great!  If there is a problem it is not this.  It is supposed to
use the same uid (although it will work with different uids).

Fred