Problem with uucp login with SCO XENIX 2.3.1

[Jonathan Bayer]

In article <397 at mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US> root at mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US (Mark J. Bailey) writes:
=
=wrong, but the mkuser command (as is packaged with 2.3.x and HDB UUCP)
=creates the home directories for uucp logins in /usr/spool/uucp.  This is
=just what the Version 2 UUCP on earlier Xenix versions have been doing.
=In and of itself, there is no problem here.  However, I upgraded to 
=the 2.3.1 and subsequently setup HDB on my system, and everything worked
=like a champ...for one day.  The next day, *ALL* uucp login attempts from
=other sites to my system failed after the password.
=
=I discovered that the home directories created by mkuser in /usr/spool/uucp
=had vanished mysteriously.  I proceeded to recreate them by hand, and again
=everything worked great until the day after.  This problem frustrated me for
=several days until I by chance examined the uudemon.clean shell script
=supplied with HDB.  I run it every morning around 4:30am.  In stepping through
=it, I discovered that the script would delete *ALL* empty directories in
=/usr/spool/uucp and also old ones.  Since uucp login home directories are
=always empty, they were axed every night.  I corrected this easily enough
=by simply relocating my uucp login home directories to /usr/spool/uucphomes
=(an arbitrary location, of course).  I also modified the files in 
=/usr/lib/mkuser/uucp to have all future uucp logins created in the new
=spot.  Once again, all is well with my uucp world. :-)  I will add that
=the SCO login does not allow logins of userids that have no existing home
=directory.  Some flavors of unix have a default directory.  SCO's login
=just shows a message and promptly returns to login.  As the uucp home
=directories had been axed, all attempts failed after the password.
=

This is a known bug which has been reported to SCO many times.  It is
due to be corrected in the next release.

Hello, SCO.  Where is the next release???????


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