25 Mar
2020
25 Mar
'20
7:17 p.m.
On 3/25/20 3:47 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
some of us still do uucp, over tcp and over pots.
My preference is to do UUCP over SSH (STDIO) over TCP/IP. IMHO the SSH adds security (encryption and more friendly authentication (keys / certs / Kerberos)) and reduces the number of ports that need to be exposed to the world / allowed through the network.
archaic, but still the right tool for some tasks.Yep. Though I think they are few and far in between.
-- Grant. . . . unix || die