OK, I'll bite... My understanding is that the UUCP system was already well and truly obsolete about ten years ago. So why is an out-of-the-box SuSE system set up so that only UUCP can access these devices? I'm probably missing something, so feel free to shoot me down in flames. Bob On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
Günter Dannoritzer wrote:
I am hesitant to add my user to the uucp group, as I am not sure whether that is the intended use of the group. I know there are some user/groups on Linux only intended for some software and not for real user accounts.
Your intuition is right. The uucp group is meant for use by the uucp system only. Adding normal users to that group is dangerous and could have unexpected side effects.
Up to 11.0 you can tell resmgr to grant certain users access to specific devices instead, see http://forgeftp.novell.com/resmgr/web/#id2830544
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