From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Nov 7 10:40:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA15497 for ports-outgoing; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:40:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA15492 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:40:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@greenpeace.grondar.za) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (C1S+ha6JDgqSGbSzuXb31mo3GN/GCRhK@greenpeace.grondar.za [196.7.18.132]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA12009; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 20:40:02 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from mark@greenpeace.grondar.za) Received: from greenpeace.grondar.za (NBeHUcUzji+Wp2cj0GAzGKSoLShmRd2H@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by greenpeace.grondar.za (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA17890; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 20:42:00 +0200 (SAST) Message-Id: <199711071842.UAA17890@greenpeace.grondar.za> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Chuck Robey cc: Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xemacs installs world writable dir Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 20:41:59 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey wrote: > On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > The xemacs-20 port installs /usr/local/lib/xemacs/lock 777. This seems > > to me to be a bad thing. > > Seeing as that's a place any user has to be able to write and read from, > to obtain mutex locks, how else would you propose it be done? If you > restrict it, then it loses it's usefulness, right? Souldn't it be at least mode 1777? There is also the possibility of putting locks into (eg) /var/tmp, var/spool/lock and so on. Sheldon's objection to a publicly writable directory in /usr/local/ is IMVHO valid. > > Surely there must be some less religiously offensive way? Right. I'd go with /var/tmp// (at a quick guess). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org