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- NAME
- UULIB:Security
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
- The UULIB:Security file governs readability and writability
- of directories relative to remote uucp requests. The UUSPOOL:
- directory is always readable and writable.
-
- This prevents other nodes from examining or overwriting
- arbitrary files in your system.
-
- The UUCICO program, which does the actual work downloading
- and uploading files, will check remote-requested paths
- against this file by comparing inodes (DOS Locks) and not
- by name. The reason for this is simply that, on the Amiga,
- several different paths may refer to the same directory.
-
- Note that before 1.16 you had to specify all directories for which
- access was to be allowed, even sub directories of directories
- already specified. As of 1.16 you need only specify the 'parent'
- directory and all sub directories will be allowed by default. So,
- for example, if you allow UUPUB: then people would be able to
- access UUPUB:fubar, UUPUB:mydir/abcd, etc... where previously they
- would have not had access to UUPUB:mydir/...
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- ---- Example Security file (this line not included) ---
-
- # This file is used by UUCICO to determine the validity of requests.
- #
- # The directories listed here are *allowed* directories for uucp
- # transfers. The permissions field lists permissions
- # r -readable
- # w -writable
-
- tmp: rw
- uucp:c r
- uucp:man r
- UUPUB: rw
-
- # If you have a UUPUBW: assign that is *different* from UUPUB: then
- # you might want to make UUPUB: readable only and UUPUBW: read-write.
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- ---- End of Example (this line not included) ---
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- REFERENCES:
- UUCP, UUCICO
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