On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 09:36:05PM +0200, Günter Dannoritzer wrote:
Lars Müller wrote:
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 12:46:33AM +0200, Günter Dannoritzer wrote:
I am wondering why so many udev rules assign the uucp group to devices?
In the young days of mail and news UUCP was used to transport messages. These systems used modems to send and receive messages.
Therefore people using uucp needed special access rights to the ttys as the dial process caused costs.
Thanks for explaining that. I see, so the intended way of using that is to add the user who can use that equipment to the uucp group?
Maybe. I'm no longer sure. I've created a new user on a openSUSE 11.0 system and got: gab:~ # LC_ALL=POSIX id ddummy uid=21626(ddummy) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),16(dialout),33(video)
How is that compared to the dialout group? I mean, is it just another group like that?
Maybe one of the SUSE Security Team knows. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SuSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany