Broken rnews permissions

[Russ Allbery]

Christopher Splinter <chris at splinter.inka.de> writes:
> * Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu>:

>> 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?

Hm.  It should work either way, but I don't understand why Taylor UUCP
can't cope with having it 4550.  Maybe someone with UUCP experience knows?

Is 2550, owned by uucp, setgid to group news a better way of doing UUCP
rnews?  I'd prefer it if it works as well.

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