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UUCP denials at osu-cis

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From: Karl Kleinpaste
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 20:20
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I just saw this little blurb float through my system...

|remote execution	[uucp job osu-cisN63e8 (12/21-14:57:12)]
|    uucp -C /n/tut/0/ftp/pub/gnu/emacs/18.55/* foghorn!/usr/spool/uucppublic/ 
|execution permission denied to jcr

Once again, quoting from GNU.how-to-get...
    ----------------
|NOTE: Do not request the files to be transferred using a command like
|  % uucp osu-cis!~/gnu/emacs/18.55/emacs\* /some/local/directory
|because that won't work.  That will queue up a short request via *uux*
|to run a uucp command on osu-cis; it will fail for security reasons.
    ----------------

Of course, notwithstanding that wildcards were used in this example
(by itself, sufficient for it to fail), the person requested stuff
from /n/tut/0/...  While that's the real pathname under which stuff
like this hides, that's not how you see it from UUCP.

Sigh,
--Karl
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From: karl@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Karl Kleinpaste)
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Date: 21 Dec 89 20:20:14 GMT
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