#942819 uucp: inetd should run uucp as user:group uucp:uucp

Package:
uucp
Source:
uucp
Description:
Unix to Unix Copy Program
Submitter:
John Goerzen
Date:
2019-10-22 01:09:06 UTC
Severity:
normal
#942819#5
Date:
2019-10-22 01:06:58 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

The default inetd.conf entry had uucpd running as root.  It should be running
as uucp:uucp instead.  This is particularly important if, as documented,
one replaces it with uucico -l, which needs to be in the uucp group to access
/etc/uucp/passwd.