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From: duane@anasaz.UUCP (Duane Morse)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Ownership and permission of news directories and files
Message-ID: <703@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 18:30:00 GMT
Organization: Anasazi Inc., Phoenix AZ
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Who should be the owner of news directories and news files? news? root?
Does it matter?

What should be the permissions on those directories and files?

On our system (B news version 2.11, patch 17), some directories and files
are owned by news and some are owned by root. Some directories are
rwxrwxrwx, and some are rwxrwxr-x. Some files are rw-rw-rw, some are rw-rw-r-.
This inconsistency makes me very nervous.
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