Where does getty get its information?

Chip Salzenberg chip at tct.com
Sun Apr 21 04:19:12 AEST 1991


According to geoff at edm.uucp (Geoff Coleman):
> If this were done then tsm/login/getty when it respawns on a port could
>change the ownership to that attribute.  This would seem to then allow the
>uucp programs to not have to be owned by root. 

I have a simpler solution: make uucico getuid-uucp and setgid-system.
Since the ports are mode 664 it works fine.
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