Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:25:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Brian C. Grayson" <bgrayson@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/mail mode changed??? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811121625050.24229-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19981111203750.B28874@marvin.ece.utexas.edu>
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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Brian C. Grayson wrote: > I did an install of FreeBSD today, and it clobbered permissions > on our NFS-mounted /var/mail (changed the group to 6, which > doesn't map to anything on our other machines, and changed > permissions from 01777 to 0775). Is there any way of controlling > whether or not the install should do this? It's a bit > disconcerting, as after the change mutt is not able to read mail > without overriding dotlocking, which might confuse the average user. > > I realize 01777 isn't the safest setting, but it works for us > on our collection of operating systems and mail clients and > daemons. Maybe the install could prompt if it saw an existing > /var/mail that was NFS-mounted??? You are aware of the dangers of a NFS mounted /var/mail, aren't you? In general it's highly discouraged due to potential spool corruption. To improve the permissions on the mail spool, make all of your mail program sgid mail. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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