UUCP error message

[+Herzog A.]

In article <659 at mccc.UUCP>, pjh at mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
> In article <89096.10:22:17.378274UH2 at PSUVM> UH2 at PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:

Most of the information (from various sources) is on target, but ...

> 	2) Again in the Permissions file, the READ and WRITE parameters
> are not set correctly.  They should at least be:
> 		READ=/usr/spool,WRITE=/usr/spool

DON'T DO IT! Unless of course you want to open up everything writable
by uucp under /usr/spool to persons unknown from remote machines: like
/usr/spool/cron, /usr/spool/uucp [also known as "giving away the shop"].
Make them /usr/spool/uucppublic, and you're OK.

> scott barman
> gatech!dtscp1!scott

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