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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 12:36:35 +0400
From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@freebsd.org>
To: Alexey Neyman <alex.neyman@auriga.ru>
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Subject: Re: different users for NNTP server
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On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 09:44:37PM +0400, Alexey Neyman wrote:
> 
> I just stumbled over this: while /etc/master.passwd includes the 'news' 
> user, the /etc/inetd.conf suggests running NNTP server as 'usenet' user 
> (missing from /etc/master.passwd). Shouldn't both these files refer to 
> the same user, e.g. 'news'?

While this is not exactly an architectural issue, your point seems
correct.  Moreover, we have never had a stock nntpd(8), so I'll
move the nntpd line within inetd.conf down to the section of optional
services as well.

Thanks for pointing out.

-- 
Yar