blue@altger.UUCP (blue) (12/10/88)
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 means you can go inside /usr/lib/news (or whatever) and modify the whole configuration. Is this an abnormal news setup or is it common? Paolo <DEC has better bugs> -- Mr. BlueBoy, DTE222 Usenet: blue@altger | Sorry all of my disclaimers were Subnet: blue@i2ack | infected by a virus 3 minutes ago.
pengo@tmpmbx.UUCP (Hans H. Huebner) (12/14/88)
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 -- Hans H. Huebner, netmbx | PSIMail: PSI%026245300043100::PENGO Woerther Str. 36 | DOMAIN: pengo@tmpmbx.UUCP D-1000 Berlin 20, W.Germany | Bang: ..!{pyramid,unido}!tmpmbx!pengo Phone: (+49 30) 882 54 29 | BITNET: huebner@db0tui6