No Passwd for nuucp

[Jack F. Vogel]

In article <1990Oct27.203150.13610 at jpradley.uucp> jpr at jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley) writes:
 
>BTW, what's the point of 'nuucp' as a public, unpassworded access instead of
>just plain 'uucp'?

Because everything in /usr/lib/uucp including such things as Systems and
Permissions is owned and readable by uucp. Would you like other sites snagging
a copy of those files :-}.


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