Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: handling the "uucp" group

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 8 Feb 2018, R0b0t1  wrote:

> It makes the most sense to me to give a uucp user dialout or tty
> permission, instead of adding myself to the uucp group, a name which
> references programs most people won't have installed and won't know
> about.

The tty group has an entirely different purpose, namely to allow
programs such as write(1) and wall(1) access other users' terminals.
So conflating it with dialout or uucp would be wrong.

Ulrich