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In article <1990Aug20.011536.3323@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
> In article <RGA59O9@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> >Huh? It's hard to determine the login name, but it's easy enough to determine
> >if you've got the same user ID as a known login (such as the news owner).

> From C; it's decidedly awkward from the shell.

So use a C program.

> And we made a decision some
> time ago that we are not especially interested in defending ourselves against
> sysadmins who don't know what they're doing.  (We rate ignorance of basic
> notions of file ownership and permissions as such.)

And this is why people are reluctant to move to C news from B news.

> >Or do what I do, chown all the files after creating them.

> Apart from being a nuisance, this assumes that there is a portable syntax
> for chown, which there isn't.

Huh? Where is there a UNIX system where "chown $NEWSMASTER $NEWSCTL/active"
won't work? Sure, some places allow the extension "chown user.group file..."
but you don't need to do that for this.
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