Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:16:19 -0400 (EDT) From: doug@safeport.com To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unix permissions questions Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009141414080.26109@oceanpt.safeport.com> In-Reply-To: <B3697A31-7525-42D9-BAD7-93FCADF6F960@mac.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009141324020.26109@oceanpt.safeport.com> <20100914200116.23a34732.freebsd@edvax.de> <B3697A31-7525-42D9-BAD7-93FCADF6F960@mac.com>
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On Tue, 14 Sep 2010, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Sep 14, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Polytropon wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:32:40 -0400 (EDT), doug@safeport.com wrote: >>> I found several directories whose permissions where set to >>> >>> dr-s--S--T 2 user group 512 Feb 22 2010 .procmail/ >>> >>> All were .procmail which is what we set for procmail logging and supporting >>> recipes. In reading 'man ls' it seems (to me) this might result from losing the >>> execute bit on the directory. Is this correct? Been BSDing since 1995 and have >>> not seen this set of permissions. Thanks for any insights. >> >> After a short read of "man ls": > [ ... ] >> Result: User can execute SUID, group cannot execute, others cannot search >> or execute; sticky bit is set. > > Except that this is a directory, not a file.... :-) > > A bit of experimentation suggests that "chmod 7500 .procmail" are the permissions involved, which are silly. No group permissions enabled means setgid is meaningless, and I don't see any value for using the sticky bit here, either. Try using 0500, 0700, or maybe 4500/4700 instead. thanks all - the context of this: the users involved do not know what the chmod command is much less its syntax and I did not do this. What I was going for was could this be a procmail bug or perhaps something more alarming (to me as a sysadmin). _____ Douglas Denault http://www.safeport.com doug@safeport.com Voice: 301-217-9220 Fax: 301-217-9277
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