UUCP -- uucpd (for those interested in the source code)

From: Alexander Bochmann <ab_at_gxis.de>
Date: Sun Jun 17 10:48:59 2001

Hi,

...on Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 07:50:12PM -0700, Frank McConnell wrote:

> OK, I'm having trouble finding the desired documentation (O'Reilly's
> _Managing UUCP and Usenet_ book) and remembering how to configure the
> HDB-like UUCP that I think stockholm is running. So please check me
> on this....

I have the "Managing uucp..." book here, and "Using UUCP..."
at work... Unfortunately, the books seems to be neither on
one of the ORA Bookshelf CDs, nor on Safari...

Possibly, there are used copies available via
Amazon (ISBN 0-937175-93-5).

> Cameron has (privately?) expressed an interest in not having to set up
> a user and password for each of his UUCP peers. To the best of my
> knowledge, the only UUCP implementation that permits this (by way of
> supporting its own user/password table that is independent of
> /etc/passwd) is Taylor UUCP. Or is it possible (and safe) to set up
> HDB UUCP such that all UUCP peer login names map to the same uid/gid?

>From a quick scan through the book, it seems you're right.

But if you don't want to use uucpd, probably only a small
perl hack is enough to replace it's basic functionality
and possibly fake a suitable environment...

> Taylor UUCP is GPL'd open source, is used on FreeBSD and probably
> other free Unixes, and will probably build for other Unixes (I used to
> run it on a Sun 3/60 with SunOS 4.1.1) but I can understand the desire
> to use the vendor-provided UUCP implementation on classic iron.

I assume that Taylor UUCP is old-style enough...
If I had to run a non-leaf system, I would chose to install
Taylor UUCP regardless of possible lack of coolness ;)

Alex.
Received on Sun Jun 17 2001 - 10:48:59 BST