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From: wisner@zug.AI.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: problems with att multiple-machine approach?
Message-ID: <3158@hermes.ai.mit.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 88 00:59:17 GMT
References: <1988Sep23.105347.652@lsuc.uucp> <2300@att.ATT.COM> <1988Sep29.210829.29073@lsuc.uucp> <1988Oct3.115720.2175@ateng.ateng.com>
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>...which solves nothing.  If I (ateng) have a UUCP login on att, then I
>can change my nodename to uunet and then use the 'ateng' login.  Presto,
>I've logged in successfully and picked up uunet's mail.

"The LOGNAME entry

	LOGNAME=uucpfriend VALIDATE=eagle:owl:hawk

specifies that if a remote machine that claims to be eagle, owl, or hawk
logs in on your 3B2 Computer, it must have used the login uucpfriend."

-- The AT&T 3B2 System V Release 2.0 Basic Networking Utilities Guide
   discussing the format of the /usr/lib/uucp/Permissions file.