srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dr. Srodawa) (03/03/90)
Using HDB UUCP in Xenix 2.3.2, if an account is given the uucico shell, the the home directory is placed in /usr/spool/uucp. But, uudaemon.clean will eventually delete it. Way to go! Ron.
wht@n4hgf.uucp (Warren Tucker) (03/07/90)
In article <205@vela.acs.oakland.edu> srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dr. Srodawa) writes: >Using HDB UUCP in Xenix 2.3.2, if an account is given the uucico shell, >the the home directory is placed in /usr/spool/uucp. But, uudaemon.clean >will eventually delete it. Way to go! >Ron. Yeah. Ain't that just GREAT?? I mimiced the SCO UNIX 3.2 usage to get around the problem. Once: mkdir /usr/spool/uucplogins Each time you add a user: mkuser uuralph mkdir /usr/spool/uucplogins/uuralph chown uuralph /usr/spool/uucplogins/uuralph chgrp uucp /usr/spool/uucplogins/uuralph rm -r /usr/spool/uucp/uuralph edit /etc/passwd to change login directory I suppose if I did this very often, I'd change 'mkuser'. (What a nuisance! I haven't found anything that makes use of the login directory. '.hushlogin' doesn't appear to work.) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Warren Tucker, Tridom Corporation ...!gatech!kd4nc!n4hgf!wht Sforzando (It., sfohr-tsahn'-doh). A direction to perform the tone or chord with special stress, or marked and sudden emphasis.
bob@consult.UUCP (Bob Willey) (03/07/90)
In article <205@vela.acs.oakland.edu> srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dr. Srodawa) writes: >Using HDB UUCP in Xenix 2.3.2, if an account is given the uucico shell, >the the home directory is placed in /usr/spool/uucp. But, uudaemon.clean >will eventually delete it. Way to go! We have run into this problem, however there is a rather easy way to get around this problem. We create a file (we call it .dd) and just remove the write privledges from the file in the home directory of the account created (i.e. /usr/spool/uucp/uutest/.dd) Then uudaemon.clean will leave the directory intact and everything will be fine. You will notice that the problem surfaces as the remote system able to call in, but locking (or appearing to stop) at the point of waiting for a passwd reply. Since it doesn't find any account directory, it cannot continue. We orignally tracked this one down by running uutry from the remote end. Hope this helps. -- .. Computer Consulting Service .. Bob Willey, CDP .. .. P.O. Drawer 1690 .. uunet!consult!bob .. .. Easton, Maryland 21601 .. (301) 820-4670 .. ...............................................................