derek@sask.UUCP (12/10/83)
Has anyone protected 2.10.1 news to prevent people from reading or posting
news items? I do not wish to discuss whether such action is acceptable
since I have no choice in the matter. It is felt that we do not have
sufficient terminals or resources to allow our user population of over 500
on an 11/70 to read the news.
I tried protecting /usr/spool/news and chmod setuid readnews after I changed
readnews to do a setuid(getuid()) prior to execing a shell or paging program
(which might have a shell escape in it) but then discovered that readnews
could not read the articles. I assume it was because it tried to open the
article after it had issued the setuid(getuid()).
I would appreciate talking with anyone who has made these modifications.
Thanks.
Derek Andrew
U of Saskatchewan
{utcsrgv,alberta,utah-cs}!sask!derekmsc@qubix.UUCP (12/15/83)
This doesn't make sense. If you want to "prevent people reading
and posting news" then why have news at all? Does "people"
really mean the plebs, while the patricians (including yourself
naturally) still get to read and post news?
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