On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 02:02:46AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Can anyone tell me why the uucp user needs to have a default shell and > home directory set? > > uucp:*:66:66:UUCP pseudo-user:/var/spool/uucppublic:/usr/libexec/uucp/uucico > > Both of those no longer exist by default in FreeBSD, with my changes. > Is there any reason why this can't be changed to: > > uucp:*:66:66:UUCP pseudo-user:/:/sbin/nologin > As already was told on "that channel", this comes from the times when ``uucp'' user didn't have password and the account was used for UUCP communication over serial lines. Any dialup UUCP user should have a passwd(5) entry built like the ``uucp''.
It doesn't really matter what the home directory is set to (IIRC), but the shell must be uucico(8). It doesn't make any sense though to enable the ``uucp'' account. Moreover, doing so may have a bad impact on system's security, as many UUCP related files are owner by the user ``uucp''. Having said that, I'm with Sheldon on how this change should be done, i.e., change home directory to /nonexistent and shell to /sbin/nologin. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/DBA, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sunbay Software AG, [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
