NAME¶
uucpd, in.uucpd - run uucico from inetd
SYNOPSIS¶
/usr/sbin/in.uucpd
DESCRIPTION¶
Uucpd is a program run from
inetd when inetd detects a connect on
the uucp port (usually
540 ). It uses pam to authenticate users. If
access by pam would be granted, and the first six letters of the basename of
the shell match the word
uucico then an utmp and wtmp entry are written
and the users shell is invoked. The uucpd process stays around until
uucico exits, then updates the utmp and wtmp files once more.
OPTIONS¶
None.
NOTES¶
Uucico also has the possibility to check for loginname/password itself directly,
instead of needing a frontend uucpd. However that does not work if the system
has shadow passwords, or any other way of authentication which requires root
priviliges. Also, no utmp/wtmp records are written.
If you want to define UUCP accounts outside the password file (eg through
/etc/uucp/passwd ) you need to call
uucico -l from
/etc/inetd.conf instead of
in.uucpd
AUTHOR¶
Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
SEE ALSO¶
inetd(8),
inetd.conf(5),
uucico(8)