Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:13:55 -0500 (EST) From: Spidey <spidey@libdns.qc.ca> To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>, Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'make installworld' makes /var/mail world-not-writable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990330101200.586F-100000@freed.libdns.qc.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9903301657210.16716-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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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
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