Problem with uucp login with SCO XENIX 2.3.1
Steve Manes
manes at marob.MASA.COM
Tue Jan 10 10:54:31 AEST 1989
>From article <397 at mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US>, by root at mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US (Mark J. Bailey):
> I discovered that the home directories created by mkuser in /usr/spool/uucp
> had vanished mysteriously.
> It appears to me (whether documented or not) that this is a considerably
> devastating problem created by SCO by shipping the release with such a setup.
Hey, it's a *feature*! It's nice having a UUCP demon clean up all those
unneeded spool directories, especially if you allow anonymous UUCP
logins. Seriously though, the oversight is mkuser's using
/usr/spool/uucp/XXX for the /etc/passwd home directory. Most BNU
installations just specify a single communal directory with read/write
permissions for UUCP, like /usr/spool/uucppublic. This is just to get
past 'login'. /usr/spool/uucp directories will still be created as
needed as needed.
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Steve Manes Roxy Recorders, Inc. Magpie-HQ BBS
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