From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 10 6: 3:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from black.nik.gov.pl (black.nik.gov.pl [212.160.156.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2147137B9AF for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 06:02:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Damian_Kuczynski@nik.gov.pl) Received: from green.nik.gov.pl (green.nik.gov.pl [172.20.11.4]) by black.nik.gov.pl (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA07204 for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:06:18 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <3992A8C7.1B5CC765@nik.gov.pl> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 15:06:15 +0200 From: Damian Kuczynski Reply-To: Damian_Kuczynski@nik.gov.pl Organization: NIK X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [pl] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: pl, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: quotas and file creditentials Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello When I tried to analizee problem with mail.local writing messages to user mailmox over quota limit I saw, that once root open a file which belongs to nonprivileged user ex. test1, and after that drops his privlegees to this user then user test1 is able to write to this file as many data an he want and qverquota his disk limits mail.local works in this maneer so it is able to overquota user mailbox. Is this normal, or maybe file should be writen under permissions effective user (euid=test1) Best regards Damian Kuczynski To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message