Florian Schlichting <[email protected]> writes:

> the description in README.Debian on how to set up SSL for nnrpd is not
> correct, nnrpd will deny making use of key.pem given the ownership and
> permissions explicitly given to it.

> README.Debian states:

>         The private key must have the correct permissions:

>         chown root:news /etc/news/key.pem
>         chmod 640 /etc/news/key.pem

> But as nnrpd(8) clearly states, this must instead be

>         chown news:news /etc/news/key.pem
>         chmod 600 /etc/news/key.pem

That's kind of bogus on nnrpd's part.  It should cope with the key being
owned by root and not writable by the news user.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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