Re: security/installation question regarding plan

1997-06-07 Thread Carey Evans
"Colin R. Telmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > Also, netplan only reads and writes to > > LIB/netplan.dir the directory that netplan puts files into, and the only > directory that netplan will read from (see Network > Security). > > where LIB under the v

Re: security/installation question regarding plan

1997-06-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: >Questions: >1) What is /var/lib/netplan used for? It seems to me that the only > directory that is needed for netplan is /usr/lib/plan/netplan.dir. I cannot remember why this was needed. There are multiple binaries running though. One for the client a

security/installation question regarding plan

1997-06-05 Thread Colin R. Telmer
the program plan uses another executable called netplan to act as an IP network server to manage appointment files. Under the vanilla compilation and installation, the following happens with netplan: if run by root or setuid root, netplan switches to "nobody". The UID and GID of are compile