Capturing caller id

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Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de> cited below with "GD" writes:

>> Why not omitting login(1) completely?  I've appended the script
>> to login here as anonymous UUCP as a starting point.

GD> Anyway, the script looks good, I like especially the "give your email
GD> address" part.

That's why I wrote it.  ;-)

GD> How secure *is* perl? I'd never do something like that in /bin/sh, but
GD> perl is rumored to be quite secure...

Perl (and uulogin itself) is in many cases more secure than any C
program -- Up's message should have said enough.  Remember that Perl was
especially designed for doing such administrative things in a secure
way.

P.S. You don't have to bother about the `system ()' calls within uulogin
since _these_ ones are handled via fork/exec.
-- 
Ralph