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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: What to do about forgeries?
- Message-ID: <BxM59x.3pt@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <1992Nov11.103240.2922@ms.uky.edu> <5899@airs.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:15:32 GMT
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- In article <5899@airs.com> ian@airs.com (Ian Lance Taylor) writes:
- >Use a different LOGNAME for each system. Enter each LOGNAME in
- >/etc/passwd with the same uid as nuucp and with a different password
- >for each one. Tell the people who call you to start using the new
- >login name and password, since nuucp will no longer work.
-
- I like to give them different uids as well. Then "who", "ps", "uustat -p",
- "uustat -a", "last", etc. will all show you meaningful names instead of the
- first match in the passwd file. Since uucico runs suid, it doesn't matter
- that the real uid is different.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-