On Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 04:11:39PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Now that uucp is no longer in the base system, is there any reason to > keep user uucp in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd?
A number of base system utilities and ports still use it for access to the serial port devices (which are owned by the uucp user). Really, the uucp user is now misnamed and should be called something like "serial" or "dialer". Kris
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