From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 2 8:22:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D7437B401; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 08:22:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from tinker.exit.com (tinker.exit.com [206.223.0.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2251C43E77; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 08:22:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gA2GLhUl064610; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 08:21:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by realtime.exit.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA2GLhbk010476; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 08:21:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@realtime.exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA2GLSpU010470; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 08:21:28 -0800 (PST) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200211021621.gA2GLSpU010470@realtime.exit.com> Subject: Re: What is user uucp good for? In-Reply-To: <200211021101.gA2B1Yla091332@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> To: John Hay Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 08:21:28 -0800 (PST) Cc: Mark Murray , "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" , FreeBSD current users Reply-To: frank@exit.com X-Copyright0: Copyright 2002 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Hay wrote: > > > Now that uucp is no longer in the base system, is there any reason to > > > keep user uucp in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd? > > > > Probably not. If you remove this, please coordinate an upgrade > > to the net/freebsd-uucp port the get the user added there. > > Also remember that /dev/cua* is owned by uucp. And that /usr/bin/tip and /usr/bin/cu are setuid uucp, although I guess they may now be a part of the port, eh? I take it that this is all in -current? -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message