From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 30 7:18:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freed.libdns.qc.ca (derby.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EDE2159DE for ; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 07:18:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spidey@libdns.qc.ca) Received: from localhost (spidey@localhost) by freed.libdns.qc.ca (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id KAA01044; Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:13:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from spidey@libdns.qc.ca) X-Authentication-Warning: freed.libdns.qc.ca: spidey owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:13:55 -0500 (EST) From: Spidey Reply-To: Spidey To: Gerald Pfeifer Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , Rahul Dhesi , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'make installworld' makes /var/mail world-not-writable In-Reply-To: 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 Here my pine is -r-xr-xr-x. spidey@freed [10:12am] natd$ ls -al /var/mail total 202 drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 512 Feb 25 02:10 ./ drwxr-xr-x 21 root wheel 512 Mar 29 19:16 ../ -rw-rw---- 1 spidey mail 192431 Mar 30 10:09 spidey spidey@freed [10:12am] natd$ This is ok for me... Is there a problem with that that I don't know of??? I think that Linux puts the mail dir world writable tho.. my 2 tenths of a cent. On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > 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 > When a man lies he murders some part of the world These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives All this I can witness any longer Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message