No Passwd for nuucp

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

In article <1990Oct28.220148.13034 at mccc.uucp> pjh at mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>In article <1990Oct27.203150.13610 at jpradley.uucp> jpr at jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
>=BTW, what's the point of 'nuucp' as a public, unpassworded access instead of
>=just plain 'uucp'?
>
>	uucp is the "root" of communications and owns enough stuff so that
>	an un-passworded uucp is an invitation to create trouble.  (This
>	was pointed out to me in email.)

On my machine, uucp, uucpmgr, Umurphy, Uhombre, Utrigere, and many others all
have the same uid/gid. 
Is this bad?
Is the scheme for nuucp to give it a different uid/gid?
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 Jean-Pierre Radley          HIGH-Q	     jpr at jpradley	CIS: 72160,1341