Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 21:59:31 -0500 From: Ed Budd <ebudd@grokking.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: rationale for /var/spool/mqueue permissions with 5.1R Message-ID: <20040106215931.44480f91.ebudd@grokking.org>
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Hi, I've been working my way through the sendmail "bat" book (not *ALWAYS* the most exciting read but informative nonetheless) and have come across a recommendation to ensure that /var/spool/mqueue is set as root-owned with mode of 0700. However, it appears that by default the permissions on 5.1R are thus (at least on my two boxes): root:daemon drwxr-xr-x My question is: why are these permissions set this way or, perhaps more to the point, what (if anything) am I likely to break if I change them to the recommendations in the book? Thanks in advance for whatever insight any of you can provide. EB
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