From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 30 7: 9:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (mail.palmerharvey.co.uk [62.172.109.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C02F14CB8 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:09:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk) Received: from ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk (unverified) by mail.palmerharvey.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 2.0.15) with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:08:46 +0100 Received: from voodoo.pandhm.co.uk ([10.100.35.12]) by ho-nt-01.pandhm.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id GZL8KFDV; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:02:08 +0100 Received: from dom by voodoo.pandhm.co.uk with local (Exim 2.10 #1) id 10S0B3-0004Yy-00; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:11:41 +0100 To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , Rahul Dhesi , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'make installworld' makes /var/mail world-not-writable X-Mailer: nmh-1.0 X-Colour: Green Organization: Palmer & Harvey McLane In-Reply-To: Gerald Pfeifer's message of "Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:59:19 +0200" Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 16:11:41 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 30 March 1999, Gerald Pfeifer proclaimed: > 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? ITYM setgid mail. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator "Value of 2 may go down as well as up" -- FORTRAN programmers manual -- ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message