tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org (Tom Tkacik) (05/08/91)
I have grabbed HDB uucp from the osu archives, but have not yet installed it. I keep wondering if it is worth the trouble. What do I gain by running HDB? I have a telebit modem running on tty000. Everything appears to be running smoothly. Why should I be using it? Security? Uucp security is the least of my security worries. Ease of management? I have uucp set up and do not do much any more. Flexibility? The stock uucp does what I need. Uugetty? Nice, but setgetty works fine, (kludge though it may be). Am I missing anything? Or should I just keep running the stock uucp? -- Tom Tkacik | tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org | To rent this space, call 1-800-555-QUIP. ...!rphroy!kyzyl!tkacik |
dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com (DoN Nichols) (05/09/91)
In article <336@kyzyl.mi.org> tkacik@kyzyl.mi.org (Tom Tkacik) writes: >I have grabbed HDB uucp from the osu archives, but have not yet installed it. >I keep wondering if it is worth the trouble. > >What do I gain by running HDB? I have a telebit modem running on tty000. >Everything appears to be running smoothly. [ ... ] > >Am I missing anything? Or should I just keep running the stock uucp? With your system's name, 'kyzy', and the apparent name of your feed, 'rphroy', probably no need to change. With my system's name 'ceilidh', and my feed's name 'beartrk', the names were geing truncated to six characters by the stock uucp which came with 3.51. (I got HDB and FIXDISK2.0 at the same time, so I can't say whether FIXDISK2.0 would have fixed things by itself.) My feed had to set up to expect calls from 'ceilid', and I had to expect to be called by 'beartr'. Just for aesthetic reasons, *I* had to change to HDB. (He was already running it, I beleve.) I do like having the extra security that this offers, even though I trust my feed, and originate all calls. (Another system receives calls, and does no uucp transfers, just logins to a non-computer-oriented bbs.) Good luck with your choice DoN. -- Donald Nichols (DoN.) | Voice (Days): (703) 664-1585 D&D Data | Voice (Eves): (703) 938-4564 Disclaimer: from here - None | Email: <dnichols@ceilidh.beartrack.com> --- Black Holes are where God is dividing by zero ---