getgid inews needed any longer?

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Aug 30 10:48:25 UTC 1999


meow <meowing at banet.net> writes:

> The real reason for setgid is that if nnrpd is unreachable, inews dumps
> articles into incoming.  While that makes it more resilient, I've not
> been comfortable with the idea because it bypasses most of the trace
> stuff.  The spooling case is also why inews duplicates the header checks
> and does its own moderator mailing.

> I suspect that much of this machinery appeared for smoother
> interoperability with/transition from C News.  INN's evolved so much
> that supporting that kind of thing probably isn't useful now.

Given that nnrpd now supports posting and spooling while the server is
throttled, and given that nnrpd is doing a lot of things that inews isn't,
does anyone feel that supporting setgid inews is really worthwhile any
more?  If not, I propose we make installing it non-setgid the default for
INN 2.3.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)         <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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