Re: exploring debian's users and groups
- To: Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>
- Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-doc@lists.debian.org, debian-user@lists.debian.org, base-passwd@packages.debian.org, leafnode@packages.debian.org, minicom@packages.debian.org
- Subject: Re: exploring debian's users and groups
- From: Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
- Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 14:48:35 +0100
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20010807144835.A24114@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:41:31PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > HELP: I notice that /etc/news/leafnode/config and even /etc/news
> > are here owned by news.news. Which is odd, because those
> > arn't things the programs should be editing on the fly. What
> > gives?
> The package is buggy.
The package would like the configuration file to be readable by a
program that is running as user news without being world readable since
it may contain passwords in plain text. The group news could probably
go, though.
In the Leafnode package /etc/news is owned by root.root, so I don't know
where the news.news there came from.
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