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From: ggw%wolves@cs.duke.edu (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: (C News) limit filesize and inews
Message-ID: <1991Jan9.031902.22269@wolves.uucp>
Date: 9 Jan 91 03:19:02 GMT
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In response to Stan, Chuck Karish shows a little wrapper for the news
scripts that deal with the ulimit and the setuid/setgid problems.

Here, I have a s5r3.2.0 386/ix 202 unix box that SUPPOSEDLY can deal
with the infamous setuid stuff, but it really couldn't,  I went back and
redid the build run and said that it had a broken setuid syscall and it
very nicely built a small setuid-root program to deal with the "broken"
syscall.  This "setnewsids" program is just the place to stick in a call
to ulimit for system 5 (in fact, there is one there anyway!)  the only
problem on this machine was that the ulimit set there was too low.

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