Re: uucp --config patch -- not sufficient

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On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Charles 'core' Stevenson wrote:

> On debian the uucp and uux binaries are owned by the uucp user. ...

On OpenBSD it is (was?) even easier (assuming uucp is installed.) The 
daily cron job would uustat as root, which also belonged to uucp. 

Some more information: There is apparently an official patch on the way. 

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ian Lance Taylor <ian () airs com> wrote:

> I'm working on a new release to correct the security problem, although
> it will probably take me a couple of weeks to get everything
> organized.

-- zen-parse

PS: Something I've learned from this: Try contact the program creator as
well as vendors with problems, if possible. It might've got this sorted
out a bit better.

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