edwards@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) (05/23/89)
After I installed the new WIN release my system has started creating the new
news directories with different permissions. Before the new release, the
permissions were read/write for everyone. On the new release, the permissions
are read/write for owner (root), and just read for other. This seems fine
except for the owner of the newsgroups. Why are the new directories owned
by root?
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In article <451@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM> edwards@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Gordon Edwards) writes:
]After I installed the new WIN release my system has started creating the new
]news directories with different permissions. Before the new release, the
]permissions were read/write for everyone. On the new release, the permissions
]are read/write for owner (root), and just read for other. This seems fine
]except for the owner of the newsgroups. Why are the new directories owned
]by root?
I was having similar permission problems under uucp-based news,
except that it was sometimes 755 uucp or 755 news. A cron script
running with Expire fixed that. Until our newsfeed went away, we
ran 777-permission news directories - this has the minor
disadvantage that individuals can go delete or modify articles, but
it never happened, and made it easier to fix broken stuff.
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