Subject: Re: setgid
To: Jan-Hinrich Fessel <oskar@zappa.unna.ping.de>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@euterpe.owl.de>
List: current-users
Date: 05/01/1994 22:53:37
> I keep having problems with setgid programs,
> mostly inn1.4 /bin/rnews:
> -rwxr-sr-x  1 news  news  92964 Apr 23 22:41 /bin/rnews
> when run by uucp/uuxqt:
> Apr 24 07:20:50 zappa rnews: cant setgid to 33 Operation not permitted

Mine works. This is from a uucp connection:

Apr 30 18:45:26 euterpe rnews: offered <2pqlnb$83k@cs1.bradley.edu> tapir
Apr 30 18:45:27 euterpe rnews: offered <2pqkok$k8h@newshost.uni-koblenz.de> tapir
Apr 30 18:45:27 euterpe rnews: offered <2pqn78$j69@nntp.hut.fi> tapir
Apr 30 18:45:27 euterpe rnews: offered <1994Apr29.122412.3259@tudedv.et.tudelft.nl> tapir
Apr 30 18:45:27 euterpe rnews: offered <2pqi9e$2us@smurf.noris.de> tapir
Apr 30 18:45:27 euterpe rnews: offered <2pihkv$kdb@pretzel.cs.huji.ac.il> tapir
Apr 30 18:45:27 euterpe rnews: offered <2pou2d$kl6@nkosi.well.com> tapir
Apr 30 18:45:27 euterpe rnews: offered <wrgCp0Lsp.LML@netcom.com> tapir
Apr 30 18:45:28 euterpe rnews: offered <2pqmlu$aro@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> tapir
Apr 30 18:45:28 euterpe rnews: offered <2pqmm2$art@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> tapir

And the program:
-r-xr-sr-x  1 news  news  92882 Apr 24 02:28 /usr/bin/rnews


Martin

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