problem with inbound anonymous uucp sessions

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <2658 at sud509.ed.ray.com> heiser at tdw201.ed.ray.com writes:

| I currently have no password on the nuucp account.  When there was a
| password, no systems were able to get in.  Now there is one system that
| can, but others can't.  This doesnt' seem to make any sense...

| # grep uucp /etc/passwd
| uucp:x:5:5:0000-uucp(0000):/usr/lib/uucp:
| nuucp:x:10:10:0000-uucp(0000):/usr/spool/uucppublic:/usr/lib/uucp/uucico
| # 
| 
| # ls -l /usr/lib/uucp/uucico
| ---s--x--x   1 uucp     daemon     93834 Jun  7 00:01 /usr/lib/uucp/uucico
| # 

  Looks to me as though nuucp is "no login" now. That's what the :x: (or
any other one character) does. If you change that to :: you will have a
start at it.
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