Subj : Re: Taylor UUCP in Debian
To   : Oleg Artemjev
From : Dennis Katsonis
Date : Tue Apr 29 2025 07:58 am

-=> Oleg Artemjev wrote to Dennis Katsonis <=-

 OA> @MSGID: <680F5AA1.2897.fidolinux@bbs.mozysswamp.org>
 OA> @REPLY: <680ED48B.2896.fidolinux@bbs.mozysswamp.org>
 OA> Hello, Dennis!

 OA> 28  Ża 25 11:05, Dennis Katsonis -> All:
 DK> Has anyone had any experience getting UUCP to work in Debian?
 DK> I've been playing around with it, and I *think* I've gotten one
 DK> machine to authenticate and connect, but after login, nothing happens.
 DK> UUCP seems to hang after sending username and password.
 DK> I can post details, but if no one here us familiar, then probably not
 DK> worth asking.
 DK> This is UUCP over TCP on a LAN.

 OA> I'm not familiar with UUCP at all, but when you will get it  working -
 OA> please post something about it  - I like to learn things by reading
 OA> HOWTOS.:)

 OA> Sorry that I didn't help & good luck to find someone to (if LLMs AI
 OA> does not help either)!

I found the problem.  I won't go into detail as I'm still not 100% where it
went
wrong, but I think the problem may have been with the way that Debian packed
it.

All I did, was change the "uucp@.service" file to start a different service
..

Instead of running /usr/sbin/in.uucpd, I changed it to run
/usr/sbin/uncico -l.  That fixed my problem, which was that nothing was logging
in right.

I'll have to look into it a bit more to see WHY the original life by Debian
didn't work, as that was supposed to use PAM for Authentication.  When I know a
bit more, I might submit a bug report and blog about it.


 
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