Date: 30 Nov 2002 10:50:51 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, idiot1@netzero.net Subject: Re: furter data on permissions Message-ID: <44of87qco4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3DE846DB.6020206@netzero.net> References: <3DE846DB.6020206@netzero.net>
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Kirk Bailey <idiot1@netzero.net> writes: > The aliases file is owned by root. a ls-l quote: > ns# cd /etc/mail/ > ns# ls -l aliases > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 7550 Nov 12 01:12 aliases > ns# > > > I even tried to set it as 5755, still no luck, the thing cannot set a > temp file in that directory. > > here is the permissions for /mail: > ns# ls -ld mail > drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 1024 Nov 5 02:23 mail > ns# > > Any ideas? Well, this is all what I'd expect because scripts on FreeBSD (and pretty much all other Unix-ish systems) won't respect setuid permissions (it's too much of a security hole in practice). Apache has some sort of setuid facility of its own for dealing with this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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