Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!iczer-1!emm
From: emm@iczer-1.UUCP (Edward M. Markowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: COPS security audit and the unix pc.
Message-ID: <563@iczer-1.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 91 00:54:42 GMT
References: <1991Mar23.004007.2024@shibaya.lonestar.org> <1991Mar26.225255.6048@ferret.ocunix.on.ca>
Reply-To: emm@iczer-1.UUCP (Edward M. Markowski)
Organization: The Kurowulf Empire
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In article <1991Mar26.225255.6048@ferret.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
>>chmod o-w ... /usr/spool/news
>
>Unless you're using C-news, you just broke your news system.  Aha, you
>ARE using C-news (/usr/lib/newsbin).  Consider this a warning to anybody
>else reading this article - if you're running B-news, do NOT make /usr/spool/news
>or /usr/lib/news anything other than 777.  Sigh...

In one of the header files in the news distribution(sp?) there is a
constant that will allow the lib and spool directories to be set to
755, the articles to be created 644 and the spool dirs 755.  I do not
rember which header and constant but it is documented there or in the
Nutshell book Managing UUCP and USENET.

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