Broken rnews permissions

Christopher Splinter chris at splinter.inka.de
Thu Nov 30 12:58:41 UTC 2000


* Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>:

>> 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?

Yes, the permissions were set this way, but apparently taylor
UUCP didn't like them. So I think they should be changed to 2550,
as I said in my original mail. Or is there any reason not to do
this?



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