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Date:      Mon, 8 Jun 1998 23:05:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dave Smith <dsmith@n2.net>
To:        vvc@kharkiv.net
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: UUCP and rnews
Message-ID:  <199806090605.XAA06576@ravel.n2.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980608113759.26033@n2.net> from Dave Smith at "Jun 8, 98 11:37:59 am"

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I have made the change you suggested and it does not work.

I suspect your answers to the other questions may help me figure
out the proper solution to the problem.

Thanks,
Dave Smith

> On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 02:43:01PM +0300, Vadim V. Chepkov wrote:
> > Dave Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > > Has anyone already solved this problem, and if so how?
> > > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I made
> > 
> > chmod g+s /usr/libexec/uucp/uuxqt
> > 
> > and all works fine.
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > Vadim V. Chepkov
> > Kharkiv Online ISP
> 
> 
> I don't quite understand how this could fix the problem.  If the
> group on the uuxqt file is uucp, then this would make the program a
> member of the "uucp" group.  I am willing to try it, but I am skeptical
> about whether this can solve this problem.
> 
> The problem as I see it is that the rnews program is running as a 
> separate process as user "news" and group "news" which does not 
> have permission to read the file.
> 
> What user, group, and permissions are on the uuxqt file?
> 
> What user, group, and permissions are on the rnews file?
> 
> What are the entries in the group file for uucp and news?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
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