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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: USERFILE, can this be true?
Keywords: user,machine directory
Message-ID: <56350@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 25 Jan 89 04:59:58 GMT
References: <151@bms-at.UUCP>
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
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In article <151@bms-at.UUCP> stuart@bms-at.UUCP (Stuart Gathman) writes:
>After years of trying to use the userid field in /usr/lib/uucp/USERFILE,
>I finally figured out what it is.  It appears to be the userid of
>the person initiating the request on the *remote* machine....
>Is this true?

No, it's not. The userid field is always relative to the local machine. But it
is much more complex than you probably suspect.

Save yourself a lot of sweat and either lay your hands on a copy of the 4.3BSD
man page for USERFILE (I can mail it to you if you want), or buy a copy of Tim
O'Reilly's book _Managing_UUCP_and_Usenet_. Both have accurate descriptions of
how USERFILE works.

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