Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:59:14 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: George Barnett <george@alink.co.za> Cc: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: uucp Message-ID: <20030312185914.GA86851@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <03de01c2e8ad$5b36cee0$c74608c3@spoem> References: <031701c2e88e$cf9fed80$c74608c3@spoem> <b4nir2$2j6l$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <03de01c2e8ad$5b36cee0$c74608c3@spoem>
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--HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:37:57PM -0000, George Barnett wrote: > From: "Christian Weisgerber" <naddy@mips.inka.de> >=20 > > > Now, I can either go and add the user UUCP.. > > > > Do so. Why did you remove it in the first place? >=20 > I have no use for anything to do with uucp. Why should the user remain on > the system if they're not going to be doing anything? Because the uucp user is still used to own devices and files related to serial port locking: > > This says "do not build uucp related programs". It does not say > > to ignore every traditional usage of the user "uucp" for serial > > locking etc. Kris --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+b4OBWry0BWjoQKURAikcAJ9NYQEt3EkabgpYDerIK3Uztb4MTACgxOrV 7XpsqFiqbWmhPcKSr8IDkZ4= =5+DV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HlL+5n6rz5pIUxbD-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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