14 Jun
2001
14 Jun
'01
7:14 a.m.
Cameron Kaiser <spectre(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu> wrote:
Can I run it through inetd, though? I would really
rather not have it as a
daemon (unless uucpd doesn't do any network stuff).
In modern FreeBSD (back to 1997 or so), uucpd is intended to be run
from inetd. It does /etc/passwd-based login
authentication and
launches uucico. I am not sure this was always true of uucpd; I
have
a vague recollection of some system on which uucpd was intended to run
as an independent daemon that opened port 540 directly, and can't
remember whether that was the behavior of earlier BSD Unix or was just
a brain-damaged implementation from a Unix vendor that didn't get it.
Taylor UUCP supports running uucico directly from inetd. If you give
uucico a -l argument it will issue "login:" and "Password:" prompts
and do login authentication using its own list of users and passwords
(not /etc/passwd).
What's stockholm running, AIX?
-Frank McConnell
14 Jun
14 Jun
8:59 a.m.
Can I run it
through inetd, though? I would really rather not have it as a
daemon (unless uucpd doesn't do any network stuff).
In modern FreeBSD (back to 1997 or so), uucpd is intended to be run
from inetd. It does /etc/passwd-based login authentication and
launches uucico. Taylor UUCP supports running uucico directly from
inetd. If you give
uucico a -l argument it will issue "login:" and "Password:" prompts
and do login authentication using its own list of users and passwords
(not /etc/passwd).
What's stockholm running, AIX?
Correct, 4.x. I have the AIX uucp toolkit already installed, but it's not
configured in any way (it calls it Basic Networking Utilities, in typical
Big Blue obfuscation).
Speaking of uucpd, it looks like the system is already set up. I was going
to add the relevant line to inetd.conf and it looks like it's there ready
to go:
#uucp stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/uucpd uucpd
I'm going to put my transparent IP-range-restrict wrappers around this,
but it looks like I'm set with the binaries and just need to set it up
(I'm very new to administering UUCP, so help and pitfall warnings
appreciated).
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