inn.conf: Support for `newsuser', `newsgrp' options (patch is, hopefully, included)

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Dec 21 18:57:59 UTC 2007


I'm hoping to be able to comment further next week when I'm on vacation,
but the patch looks generally good.

Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

> Yes it does.
> But I only wanted to be sure (in this case, it should be #newsuser
> and #newsgrp in inn.conf, all commented).

newsgrp is sort of unfortunately cryptic.  newsgroup is sort of
unfortunately confusing.  I wonder if we can come up with option names
that are both less cryptic and less confusing.

runasuser and runasgroup, maybe?

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