Re: majordomo & dialup??

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From: Ben Smithurst
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 00:00

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Huge wrote:

> In article <slrn8p6776.21io.ben@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>, ben@scientia.demon.co.uk (Ben Smithurst) writes:
>
>> If so,
>> just turn off the group write bits on all the files in the Majordomo
>> directory, and all the paths leading to it (i.e. "chmod g-w / /usr
>
> Is this wise?

That was the advice generally given on the Majordomo lists, IIRC.  I
can't see why there's a good reason for them to be group writable
anyway.

>> If that's not the error, please be a bit more detailed.
>
> In my defence, it was a while ago and I was doing it from memory.

ah, ok. :-)

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