Broken rnews permissions

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Wed Nov 29 23:45:59 UTC 2000


Christopher Splinter <chris at splinter.inka.de> writes:

> rnews's permissions seem to be broken in INN 2.3.x. When INN is
> compiled using --enable-uucp-rnews, taylor UUCP fails:

> uuxqt uu.inka.de uucp (2000-11-29 20:16:48.43 14705) Execution failed (X.uu.inkad0I39)

> This does not happen when rnews has a mode of 2550, is owned by
> `uucp' and belongs to the group `news'.

If you configured and installed with --enable-uucp-rnews, rnews should
have been installed with 4550 permissions, owned by news and with group
uucp.  Is this not what happened?

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



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