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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Re: Networks considered harmful/Re: USENIX board studies UUCP
Message-ID: <123@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 89 02:51:21 GMT
References: <7375@ficc.uu.net> <670004@gore.com>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <670004@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
>/ comp.protocols.tcp-ip / peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) / Dec 26, 1989 /
>> Allowing
>> anonymous UUCP with a standard account (email) and password (email) does
>> this.
>
>I think we Unix system administrators have been doing this for so long,
>that we forgot that it's not "UUCP" that requires a login and a password.
>Just run uucico (or its equivalent) on the modem's port, instead of running
>a getty->login->uucico.

I doubt that uucico would work properly without having it's environment
setup by login.

Might be able to fudge it with from inittab with script.

Don't forget some systems (eg Xenix) don't easily allow anything but getty
to run on a tty port. I suppose it would be possible, but not to obvious.

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