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From: andrew@teletron.UUCP (Andrew Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: a few questions on the 3B1
Message-ID: <113@teletron.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 17:13:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: teletron.113
Posted: Mon Oct 19 17:13:21 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Oct-87 23:52:20 EDT
References: <1913@gryphon.CTS.COM> <487@maxepr.UUCP>
Organization: TeleTronic Communications Ltd., Edmonton, Alta.
Lines: 43
Summary: uucp TZ problem fix

In article <1913@gryphon.CTS.COM> jimmy@denwa.UUCP (Jim Gottlieb) writes:
>I notice that the machine defaults to Eastern Time (i.e. incoming uucp
>calls are logged in EDT,...

In article <487@maxepr.UUCP>, ken@maxepr.UUCP (Ken Brassler) writes:
> A previous discussion in a different newsgroup offered the following
> fix:
>
> 2. Change the /etc/passwd entries for uucp & nuucp to point to a
> shell script, rather than uucico. I use /usr/lib/uucp/uushell.
> 
> 3. Create /usr/lib/uucp/uushell containing the following:
> 
> if [ \( -f /etc/TZ \) -a \( -r /etc/TZ \) ]
> then
> 	TZ=`cat /etc/TZ`
> 	export TZ
> fi
> exec /usr/lib/uucp/uucico $*

Using a shell script for a login is a *bad thing*.  I was shown how this is
a security hole by lyndon@ncc.  I wrote the following short driver to uucico
to solve the problem.  Rename the present uucico as 'uucico.exec' and name
the compiled version of this program 'uucico'.

	Andrew

static char *environ[] =
{
	"PATH=:/bin:/usr/bin",
	"HOME=/usr/spool/uucppublic",
	"TZ=MST7MDT",				/* or whatever */
	0
};

/* ARGSUSED */
main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{
	(void) execve("/usr/lib/uucp/uucico.exec", argv, environ);
	return (0);
}