From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 30 6:23:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3279014CC6 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 06:22:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.2/8.9.2/UCB) id RAA27968; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:20:01 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ru) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:20:00 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Rahul Dhesi Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'make installworld' makes /var/mail world-not-writable Message-ID: <19990330172000.A27706@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: Rahul Dhesi , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199903301412.AA21609@bolero-x.rahul.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <199903301412.AA21609@bolero-x.rahul.net>; from Rahul Dhesi on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 06:12:56AM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 06:12:56AM -0800, Rahul Dhesi wrote: > This came as a bit of a shock: > > 'make installworld' makes /var/mail world-not-writable > > As a result, users can no longer properly read their mail. > > Observed on yesterday's cvsup'd 3.1-STABLE. > > Rahul /var/mail was never supposed to be world-writable. The proper mode for it is 0775. # ls -lLd /var/mail drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 1024 Mar 30 17:18 /var/mail Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message