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From: pengo@tmpmbx.UUCP (Hans H. Huebner)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin,news.admin
Subject: Re: bad configuration for postnews
Keywords: postnews
Message-ID: <1425@tmpmbx.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 16:30:54 GMT
References: <1216@altger.UUCP>
Reply-To: pengo@tmpmbx.UUCP (Hans H. Huebner)
Organization: netmbx GbR, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <1216@altger.UUCP> blue@altger.UUCP (blue) writes:
>Well, i'd like to know if on other's systems the following happens.
>Go posting news (postnews).
>From your editor escape out on shell.
>check out your ids. On altos you are "news".
This is clearly abnormal.  Postnews doesn't need to be s[ug]id, since the
actual handling of the article is done by inews (which *is* suid news).
Anyways, stop asking about specialities on altger, the whole system setup
is a bit flaky.

	Hans
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