On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:10 -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:48 -0600, Louis Zirkel wrote:
> > UUCP stands for Unix-to-Unix Copy and it's a store and forward type of
> > system that was used back before there was an always on type internet
> > with tcp/ip. There were routing tables, similar to with tcp/ip which
> > would define how information could be routed through the network. It
> > was heavily used for email and usenet news, as well as file transfers.
> > The spam vector your seeing is just a way to try and using any historic
> > means necessary to gain traction with your box.
>
> In other words, unless you like to dabble in ancient technologies for
> fun, you can just disable the uucp email account. Chances are, it's
> probably defined in /etc/aliases so you can just remove it then run
> newaliases to update the alias database.
If you use Debian you may have a hard time getting rid of the uucp
account. Every time you upgrade the base-config, it will attempt to put
the account back into /etc/passwd. Instead I put this into my
exim4.conf:
drop message = user not found
condition =
${lookup{$local_part}lsearch{/etc/exim4/blacklist_localusers}{yes}{no}}
Where blacklist_localusers has a list containing uucp, www-data, games,
man, etc.
Corey
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