16 Jun
2001
16 Jun
'01
5:50 p.m.
Bill Pechter <pechter(a)bg-tc-ppp1633.monmouth.com> wrote
(after Cameron Kaiser):
> I haven't even figured out how to configure
uucpd! :-)
Ask and you shall receive.
[...]
The rest of uucp can be picked up from the gnu sites.
I'm willing to help with the mapping project and to act
as a resource to help people get uucp up.
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....
UUCP over dialup works by logging into the remote system, with the
user on the remote system set up with uucico as its shell. So uucp
would dial up and log in, and login would exec uucico (as the shell)
so that the caller would have something to which it could speak uucp.
uucpd continues to follow this model, only it issues the login: and
Password: prompts, checks to make sure the supplied user name has
uucico as its shell, and execs uucico after successful authentication.
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?
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.
-Frank McConnell
16 Jun
16 Jun
7:26 p.m.
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?
Not a private wish -- I really would prefer to have uucp do its own auth.
I suspect other sysadmins would also be interested -- both convenience
and security.
--
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Cameron Kaiser, Point Loma Nazarene University * ckaiser(a)stockholm.ptloma.edu
-- A different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. -- G. Eliot
17 Jun
17 Jun
6:48 a.m.
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.
3:06 p.m.
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.
Since it can be built to handle SysV, HDB, BSD and Taylor
log and config file types it can look like the vendor supplied
versions with no problems.
I built my FreeBSD version with the local mod of BSD style
config files and logging (even though FreeBSD at one time shipped with
Taylor and I used HDB style for a while as well to keep compatibility
with files on another machine I was maintaining).
Bill
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