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. -- "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever."