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discuss commit: Clarify setuid in disserve manpage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan D Reed)
Fri Mar 7 12:27:37 2014
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 12:27:30 -0500
From: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
Message-Id: <201403071727.s27HRUn1025978@drugstore.mit.edu>
To: source-commits@MIT.EDU
https://github.com/mit-athena/discuss/commit/bda23a82c85164bfe0c4951a70a14693663e3f41
commit bda23a82c85164bfe0c4951a70a14693663e3f41
Author: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
Date: Fri Mar 7 12:26:35 2014 -0500
Clarify setuid in disserve manpage
Per jweiss' suggestion, clarify that disserve is setuid
discuss, not setuid root.
disserve.8 | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/disserve.8 b/disserve.8
index e58f904..6be87c6 100644
--- a/disserve.8
+++ b/disserve.8
@@ -11,7 +11,9 @@ The
program is a component of the discuss server. Is it not intended to be
run by hand.
-\fBdisserve\fR is typically installed setuid and run (by \fBdiscuss\fR(1) or \fImkds\fR(8), for example) to handle local access to discuss meetings.
+\fBdisserve\fR is typically installed setuid, owned by the 'discuss'
+user, and run (by \fBdiscuss\fR(1) or \fImkds\fR(8), for example) to
+handle local access to discuss meetings.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR discuss (1)
