Re: Help needed in sending mail

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From: Matt Healy
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 01:17

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In article <1992Dec28.185752.23039@nbc1.ge.com>, saz@nbc1.ge.com (Steve
Zahner) wrote:
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> For some reason, I can only send mail if I log in 
> as user uucp, otherwise, I get the error
> 

I cannot help you with your email problem.  However, if
your system allows human logins to its uucp account then
you have a *major* security hole--uucp has a high level
of privileges so nogoodniks love it.  The /etc/passwd
entry for your uucp account should have an asterisk in
the password field so that interactive logins are not
possible.

I suspect that your system has privileges set so that
ordinary users are denied email access; uucp may be able
to override such limitations.  Check with your system administrator.

Matt Healy
"I pretend to be a network administrator; the lab
 net pretends to work!"

matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu

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From: matt@wardsgi.med.yale.edu (Matt Healy)
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