Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:17:36 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unix permissions questions Message-ID: <20100914201736.9519471e.freebsd@edvax.de> 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 11:04:58 -0700, Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> 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.... :-) Thanks, I forgot to include that in my summary. :-) In this case, I wanted to say that the user can chdir / search that directory. > 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. I would think that's what the permissions should be - it roughly is equivalent to what a file with a similar purpose would look like for a (user's) private .procmail/ directory. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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