Re: UUCP and PortMasters
Mark E. Mallett (mem@mv.MV.COM)
Tue, 5 Sep 1995 17:17:04 -0400 (EDT)
> > }Just treat the UUCP account as any other user name (I do this in the
> > }password table), set to autologin to the UUCP host. That way, the PM never
> > }asks for the password to begin with (I have ALL the dialup users set this
> > }way, btw -- the only passwords I have the PM handle right now is PPP
> > }accounts).
> >
> > Two problems with this approach. First you have to keep all of the password
> > tables on all of your PM's in synch which can be a bit of a problem after
> > you get more than a couple.
Etc.
What we do is have a single "uucp" login, no password, on the
portmaster, which gets the caller connected over to the uucp host,
where they get a login and password prompt.
The caller has to have a three-part dialer entry, but that's no
big problem. We instituted this a long time ago, so that we could
redirect the uucp (and other) traffic to different servers as need be.
Works great.
-mm-