From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 15 13:32:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA15972 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:32:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA15961 for ; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:32:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA22635; Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:21:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from UNKNOWN(), claiming to be "current1.whistle.com" via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd022632; Sat Nov 15 13:21:23 1997 Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:19:25 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Andre Albsmeier cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How useful is this patch In-Reply-To: <199711151830.TAA21413@intern> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk yes, but it's been devreed 'un-needed' by core an dprobably won't appear there for a while. I will put up a 2.2.5 relative version of the patch.. it will be ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/suiddir.diff.2.2 look for it in an hour or so.. (back to the old 'patchkit' days.. :) On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > of course, > > but who said that you have to enable it in you HOME directory? > > We want to do this in users 'dropbox' directories > > which is not the same as their ho,e directories. > > without it there is a never-ending set of complaints about > > permissions, and the admin spends a lot of time removing files for users. > > As is indicated.. this is implemented as a mount option (default off) > > and the directory in question must have the bit set.. > > it isn't likely to happen by accident. > > We can keep it as a WHISTLE-ONLY mod here, but I thought > > I'd see if anyone else wants it.. > > I'd rather have it in the general sources than proprietary, > > but That's a decision that's beyond me to make.. > > (i.e. yours). > > Count me on side of people who want it :-) I have got to deal > with the problem a long time now and I am really tired of it... > > However, best would be to see it in 2.2.5... > > -Andre >