Re: [Noffle-devel] Re: [Noffle-users] Big Problems with noffle 1

[Jim H. <jim...@ac...>]

On 07-Oct-2002 Mirko Liss wrote:
> I haven't looked at the rpm yet, so I can't tell anything about it.
> 
> Thorsten's noffle used to do what he expected until he added 'noffle --fetch'
> to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local. His giant log file noted wrong file permissions of
> the
> files in the outgoing/news.cis.fn.de/ directory, the lock and lastupdate
> files.
> Have I forgotten some entries when skimming through the log?

The thing is, I don't see how the umask (well, any sane one) could matter.
After all, noffle should be suid news by that stage and creating directories
owned by news.

One thing does occur to me, though, looking at the leafnode and the noffle
problems. Could something have been through and reset the suid bit on the
executable? Some sort of security checking process?

Thorsten, does /usr/bin/noffle have permissions starting

-rwsr-xr-x    1 news     news 

if you 'ls -l' it?

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