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Date:      Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:37:23 -0600 (CST)
From:      James Wyatt <jwyatt@RWSystems.net>
To:        0x1c <nick@shibumi.feralmonkey.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: uucp home dir mode 777?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904021333440.7622-100000@kasie.rwsystems.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904021811140.8352-100000@shibumi.feralmonkey.org>

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On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, 0x1c wrote:
> On my 2.2.8-REL box and my 3.1-REL box the modes for use uucp's home dir
> are both 777. Is there any particular reasoning behind this?

This is not needed unless you are doing *anonymous* UUCP and allowing
local users to put files there. (I usually have a uucpmgr user that owns
/etc/uucp or /usr/lib/uucp and disable anon UUCP.) chmod it to 0 or 755 if
you run UUCP or remove it if you don't. You can still support anon UUCP
without it, but local users won't be able to exchange files with it.

Hope this helps - Jy@



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