Date: Mon, 5 May 1997 05:37:29 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: CVS-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-etc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc group Message-ID: <19970505053729.40056@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <15411.862631777@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Fri, May 02, 1997 at 08:56:17PM -0700 References: <19970502085632.27673@keltia.freenix.fr> <15411.862631777@time.cdrom.com>
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According to Jordan K. Hubbard: > The permissions and the group. 775 permission and root.mail or > bin.mail (it's currently owned by bin, why change that?). We need neither changes. We don't have setgid mail MUA (and I certainly don't want that, fcntl locking has been running fine since 386BSD) and owner should be root as usual. Anything that doesn't belong to a specific user must belong to root, not to any other user. The pseudo user bin has no need to exist, it may be coming from gold old BSD past, all files should belong to root for security reasons (generally harder to get root access than "regular" user). But you already knew that argument. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #7: Sat Apr 26 17:13:26 CEST 1997
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