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From: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Need some helping pointers with "mail" over UUCP.
Message-ID: <3382@ci.sei.cmu.edu>
Date: 18 May 89 16:16:48 GMT
References: <11688@well.UUCP> <18492@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
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Organization: Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
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In article <18492@cup.portal.com> Max_Jeff_Rochlin@cup.portal.com writes:
>It sounds like you have a file permissions problem.  Make sure that that you
>have set L.sys for public access.


Yow!  This would be a big mistake!  Nobody should be able to read L.sys
except "uucp" and "root"; it contains phone numbers, login names, and
passwords for remote systems.  All of the uucp utilities are appropriately
set-uid to be able to read these files.

John's original problem does sound like uux is having problems opening
a file.  It could be that uux is not set-uid (mine is mode 6111, owner
"uucp", group "daemon"), or that a file it's trying to open either does
not exist or is not owned by "uucp".  Check and make sure all the files
and directories under /usr/spool/uucp are owned by "uucp".

--Pat.