Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:59:19 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> Cc: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'make installworld' makes /var/mail world-not-writable Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903301657210.16716-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <19990330172000.A27706@relay.ucb.crimea.ua>
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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
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