Re: Bug#63665: cnews: /usr/lib/news/gngp does not honour '#..' style comments
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:32:57PM +0200, GOMBAS Gabor wrote:
> /usr/lib/news/gngp does not treat lines starting with '#' as comments.
> This program is used to check newgroup/rmgroup permissions using the file
> /etc/news/controlperm. But because of this bug, lines in /etc/news/controlperm
> which seems to be commented out are still used for access checking. For the
> default configuration, it means that control messages for sci, misc, news,
> rec, soc and talk hierarchies coming from (or looking like if they had come
> from) tale@uunet.uu.net are accepted without questions.
>
> Due to the nature how gngp interprets it's input, the comp, bit and clari
> hierarchies (as listed in the default configuration) are not affected.
>
> Solution: modify gngp to skip lines which start with '#'
Thank you for the bug report Gabor. I am surprised that you consider
this bug important since it has always existed. Has tale@uunet.uu.net
only just begun to send out control messages?
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
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