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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 1999 18:09:56 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To:        Spidey <beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca>
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.GSO.4.10.9903301807400.16716-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990330101200.586F-100000@freed.libdns.qc.ca>

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On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Spidey wrote:
> 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???

http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/sysadmins.html#xtocid634146

(And yes, the previous poster was correct in that I ment to say ``SUID to
some special group, like mail in this case''.)

Gerald
-- 
Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/



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