Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 08:20:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UUCP and rnews Message-ID: <199806091220.IAA12528@bilver.magicnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199806090605.XAA06576@ravel.n2.net> from Dave Smith at "Jun 8, 98 11:05:02 pm"
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Recently Dave Smith said: > > 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? I didn't recall the orignal question but I stared with 'b' news in 1986, move to 'c' news in 1980, and put it up on FreeBSD after the old Esix system died after 7 years. Someone else said: > > > I made > > > chmod g+s /usr/libexec/uucp/uuxqt > > > and all works fine. That's only one thing. Someone else said this - and the part of the message is refers to is gone. > > 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. uuqxt is supposed to have these permissions. -r-sr-x--- 1 uucp uucp 90112 Apr 1 1997 /usr/libexec/uucp/uuxqt It is supposed to run 'suid' as uucp - which is more of the key to the story than group ownership > > 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. That is where your system an mine differ. lrwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 36 Mar 15 11:28 /usr/local/bin/rnews -> /usr/local/news/cnewsbin/input/rnews -rwxr-xr-x 1 bin bin 1987 Mar 13 1997 /usr/local/news/cnewsbin/input/rnews As you will note this is set to 'bin' on this system. In the cnewsbin/input file the only file 'not' set to bin is 'newspool' which is set to news. It's been quite a while since I've installed all of this but there are choices to be made during the compile on what users run what. I also recall there were about 3 steps after compile that set proper permissions. There are tests that are there that can be run after compilation to check on proper operation. Gawd - I remeber 3 HOUR compiles in the days of 6MHz 68000s. Now if you make a mistake you can redo everything in a fairly short time. > > What are the entries in the group file for uucp and news? uucp is 66, news is 8 Bill -- bill@bilver.magicnet.net | bill@bilver.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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