Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watcgl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watcgl!dmmartindale From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale) Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: rmgroup control message requires a @#$%^&* password Message-ID: <703@watcgl.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 20:11:49 EST Article-I.D.: watcgl.703 Posted: Sat Dec 8 20:11:49 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 03:47:58 EST Distribution: net Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 10 Why on earth does inews ask for a password, probably known only to the writer of the code, if you try to post a "rmgroup" control message? Even if you are root? Even if the group is a local-distribution one? I can see the point in making it difficult to rmgroup net.politics, for example, but why by a password check? And surely this isn't needed for groups that are of a more local scope? Just how am I supposed to generate a rmgroup message anyway, short of (a) changing the code (b) patching the binary or (c) editing a fake message and passing it to rnews (the method I used)?