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From: kenc@suntan.viewlogic.com (Kenstir)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: NNTP incoming batches owned by `nobody'
Message-ID: <1991May15.162933.13867@viewlogic.com>
Date: 15 May 91 16:29:33 GMT
Sender: news@viewlogic.com
Organization: Viewlogic Systems, Inc., Marlboro, MA
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Originator: kenc@madmax
Nntp-Posting-Host: madmax



NNTP 1.5.11, Sun 3-80, SunOS 4.1 -- 

I built NNTP with POSTER defined as "news" and I run nntpd from inetd.
The documentation says that nntpd will setuid() to news, but it's not
happening.  The incoming files get owned by user "nobody" (which indicates
to me that this was an attempt by root to write files into an NFS-mounted
directory).  I really would like to write-protect that directory :-)

Thanks for any advice you can give...

-- 
Kenneth H. Cox
Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
kenc@viewlogic.com
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