From: utzoo!decvax!cca!fortune!Dave-Yost@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: proposed extension to uucp USERFILE format
Article-I.D.: fortune.220
Posted: Thu Jul 29 21:31:03 1982
Received: Sat Jul 31 06:23:49 1982

Like some other hip sites, we have individual uucp
logins for each remote site.  I'd like to extend
uucico so that an optional third field in a USERFILE
line would be for the login name, as in

,decvax,udecvax /usr/spool/uucppublic

so that no system pretending to be decvax could
get in without logging in as udecvax.  Anyone
done anything along these lines?

This would plug the security hole of a system with
a restricted path logging in and pretending to be
a system that has less restricted path access without
requiring callback.

--dave yost