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From: tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Subject: Re: "setgroups: not owner" problem with 1.5.10
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Computer Science, Troy NY
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Date: 8 Sep 90 00:05:31 GMT
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In article <1886@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:

   setgroups is in spawn.c and batch.c in the server directory of the 
   distribution. nntpd expects to run as root. If you spawn it as
   someone other than root, you can expect to see this message.

   Other changes were made to NNTP to deal with various security concerns,
   so it can run as root and not so nasty things.

Please elaborate on what features of NNTP require it to be run as
root.  I do not run nntpd as root, do not want to run it as root
and consider (just initial impressions without any facts to back it up)
that making it need to be run that way is a step in the wrong direction.
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