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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: System V introduces yet another inconsistency
Message-ID: <490@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 4-Mar-85 13:50:04 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  4 13:50:04 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 04:19:49 EST
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Reply-To: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
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	>..the System V standard has "uucp" as a normal user whose home
	>directory is /usr/lib/uucp, and the uucico login is "nuucp".
	>Great. Why couldn't they leave well enough alone? Now, before
	>I transfer anything to/from a remote site's public directory,
	>I have to find out whether it's ~uucp or ~nuucp.
Is that the SysV standard or is SysV just by default distributed with
that setup?
Lots of non-SysV sites have/had uucp as a normal user with home directory
/usr/spool/uucp. This may work fine if there's only one system you're
talking to and if you don't use uucppublic. In all other cases it would
be wise to give each system a separate login (homedir e.g. /usr/spool/uucp)
and use uucp only as a special passwd entry, homedir /usr/spool/uucppublic.

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	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
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