From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 30 7: 2:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E24F14CB8 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:01:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) Received: from markab (markab [128.130.111.33]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA19513; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:59:14 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:59:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: Rahul Dhesi , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'make installworld' makes /var/mail world-not-writable In-Reply-To: <19990330172000.A27706@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > /var/mail was never supposed to be world-writable. > The proper mode for it is 0775. Nope, the proper mode for /var/mail/ is rwxrwxrwt. How else is locking supposed to work? Or do you want to run all your mail user agents suid root? Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message