Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!piet 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 Article-I.D.: mcvax.490 Posted: Mon Mar 4 13:50:04 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 04:19:49 EST References: <454@lsuc.UUCP> Reply-To: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) Distribution: net Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 17 >..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. -- Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet