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From: rdc30med@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (LCDR Michael E. Dobson)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Problem with nntp/C-news/nfs interactions
Message-ID: <1990Jul17.214453.8450@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
Date: 17 Jul 90 21:44:53 GMT
References: <1990Jul11.164853.1715@phri.nyu.edu>
Organization: Naval Medcial Research & Development Command
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In article <1990Jul11.164853.1715@phri.nyu.edu> roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>	Eventually I figured out that what was going on was that nntpd was
>running as root and root permissions do not extend accross NFS mount
>points.  One question this brings up is, does nntp really have to run as
>root?  Could I run nntp as news instead?  Another is, why didn't nntp log

I never run any of my TCP/IP deamons as root, they are all bin except for
nntpd.  I have recently been running that as owner news group bin.  So far
I haven't noticed any problems.  Access history file ok, puts incoming stuff
in in.coming.  I haven't tried sending to a remotely mounted file system so I
can't address the remainder of your questions.

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