On Sat, 17 Jan 1998 16:32:21 -0800 (PST) 
 rickgc@calweb.com (Rick Copeland) wrote:

 > I am not sure what you are asking for, if uid is "user ID" then my next
 > guess would be that  "rgc:*:0:0:Captain Network:/usr/home:/bin/csh" might
                               ^ ^
			       | |
			       | + gid (group id)
			       +-- uid (user id)

That's why; a uid of 0 is "root", and such logins are not allowed on
insecure ttys.  (ftpd looks at the username, not the uid, unfortunately).

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