[net.unix-wizards] proposed extension to uucp USERFILE format

Dave-Yost@sri-unix (07/30/82)

Like some other hip sites, we have individual uucp
logins for each remote site.  I'd like to extend
uucico so that an optional third field in a USERFILE
line would be for the login name, as in

,decvax,udecvax /usr/spool/uucppublic

so that no system pretending to be decvax could
get in without logging in as udecvax.  Anyone
done anything along these lines?

This would plug the security hole of a system with
a restricted path logging in and pretending to be
a system that has less restricted path access without
requiring callback.

--dave yost