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- From: ry66@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Andreas Ley)
- Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
- Subject: Re: News as non-superuser?
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 10:49:53 GMT
- Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany
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- References: <1992Dec15.000845.13229@news.columbia.edu> <BzBpn8.D28@zoo.toronto.edu> <%n#@byu.edu> <92Dec17.224422.15512@acs.ucalgary.ca>
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- In article <92Dec17.224422.15512@acs.ucalgary.ca>, kozlowsk@acs.ucalgary.ca (Don M. Kozlowski) writes:
- > >Unless you're using NNTP. Its port (119) is reserved for root. That's
- > >just for the daemon. You can send news without being special.
- > news. Root access was required only to modify /etc/inetd.conf to
- > run /usr/local/etc/nntpd (as user news) when a call came in on
-
- Well, I guess your inetd was started and runs as root - and he is the one
- to listen on the socket, and he needs priv to do so.
-
- Bye, Andy
-
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