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From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: C News and setuid(geteuid)
Message-ID: <b0cutv.ete@wang.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 04:22:42 GMT
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geoff@zoo.toronto.edu (Geoffrey Collyer) writes:
> My current plan is to get rid of
> all uid setting in relaynews and setnewsids and require that relaynews
> always be invoked with real uid of "news" (or local equivalent).  This
> will have the beneficial side-effects of eliminating a build question,
> simplifying relaynews and fixing a festering portability problem.

So will inews invoke newsspool instead of relaynews and leave the article
to be unbatched later?

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