Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:54:21 +0100 From: "George Barnett" <george@alink.co.za> To: "Mike Hoskins" <mike@adept.org>, <security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: killing UUCP Message-ID: <02c101c35c3b$62258dc0$c74608c3@spoem> References: <20030805213206.60517.qmail@web10104.mail.yahoo.com> <20030805164850.C6218@fubar.adept.org>
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From: "Mike Hoskins" <mike@adept.org> > i may just be thinking of another case, or not thinking at all... but i > recall buildworld issues if certain users weren't in the password file. > (granted, this memory is coming from 2-3 years ago.) as a result, i've This is true - a buildworld fails if there's no uucp user (I got caught out some time back): [mail] /dev $ ls -l | grep uucp crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 128 Jan 2 1999 cuaa0 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 129 Jan 2 1999 cuaa1 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 130 Jan 2 1999 cuaa2 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 131 Jan 2 1999 cuaa3 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 160 Jan 2 1999 cuaia0 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 161 Jan 2 1999 cuaia1 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 162 Jan 2 1999 cuaia2 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 163 Jan 2 1999 cuaia3 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 192 Jan 2 1999 cuala0 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 193 Jan 2 1999 cuala1 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 194 Jan 2 1999 cuala2 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 28, 195 Jan 2 1999 cuala3 crw-rw---- 1 uucp dialer 124, 0 Jan 2 1999 umodem0 Cheers --george
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