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<TITLE>Anonymous UUCP</TITLE>
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<A HREF="node1.html"><IMG WIDTH=65 HEIGHT=24 ALIGN=BOTTOM ALT="contents" SRC="contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR>
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<B> Next:</B> <A HREF="node180.html">UUCP Low-Level Protocols</A>
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<B>Up:</B> <A HREF="node174.html">Setting up your System </A>
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<B> Previous:</B> <A HREF="node178.html">Be Paranoid-- Call Sequence </A>
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<H2><A NAME="SECTION0014550000">Anonymous UUCP</A></H2>
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<A NAME="6425"></A>
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<A NAME="6426"></A>
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If you want to provide anonymous UUCP access to your system, you first
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have to set up a special account for it as described above. A common
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practice is to give it a login name and a password of uucp.
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In addition, you have to set a few of the security options for unknown
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systems. For instance, you may want to prohibit them from executing any
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commands on your system. However, you cannot set these parameters in a
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sys file entry, because the system command requires the
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system's name, which you don't have. Taylor UUCP solves this dilemma
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through the unknown command. unknown can be used in
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the config file to specify any command that can usually appear in
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a system entry:
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This will restrict unknown systems to downloading files from below the
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pub directory and uploading files to the incoming
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directory below /var/spool/uucppublic. The next line will make uucico
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ignore any requests from the remote system to turn on debugging
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locally. The last two lines permit unknown systems to execute
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rmail; but the command path specified makes uucico look
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for the rmail command in a private directory named
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anon-bin only. This allows you to provide some special
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rmail that, for instance, forwards all mail to the super-user
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for examination. This allows anonymous users to reach the maintainer
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of the system, but prevents them at the same time from injecting any
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mail to other sites.
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To enable anonymous UUCP, you must specify at least one unknown
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statement in config. Otherwise uucico will reject any unknown
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systems.
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<P><ADDRESS>
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<I>Andrew Anderson <BR>
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Thu Mar 7 23:22:06 EST 1996</I>
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