Bob Vickers wrote:
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?
No idea whether and how many people still use uucp. There isn't much set up for uucp by default except that there is a uucp group that has access permissions on serial ports and /var/lock. As long as you do not actually use uucp it doesn't make any difference whether the group of those things is uucp or root. Presence of the uucp group has the drawback that it sometimes makes people believe that adding users to that group is the preferred way to get access to serial ports though. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org