Re: kexpress better than krn?

[Roberto Alsina <ralsina@unl.edu.ar>]

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Donovan Rebbechi wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Roberto Alsina wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Kevin Forge wrote:
> > 
> > > If you are insane enogh 
> > > to make something suid root then do that for a script like "fetchmynews"
> > > and have KPPP execute that on conect ( no nead for entering a password
> > > each time ).  Of course the script wold just say
> > > 
> > > fetchnews
> > 
> > Last I checked linux didn't let you use suid scripts.
> 
> With good reason, suid scripts are really dumb. 
> 
> You need to either use sudo, or just make kppp SUID ( though I think maybe
> it is out of the box )

I looked. You can make fetchnews SUID news, if you give the news user
write permission in the leafnode spool.

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