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Date:      Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:49:35 +0200
From:      Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        void <float@firedrake.org>, Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Proper permissons on /tmp
Message-ID:  <20001117144935.A44763@myhakas.matti.ee>
In-Reply-To: <3076.974461947@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:52:27PM %2B0200
References:  <20001116151809.A15312@firedrake.org> <3076.974461947@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>

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On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 01:52:27PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> wrote:

> > I have a similar problem -- every time I make world, perms on /var/mail
> > get set to 775.  Mutt considers my mailbox read-only until I change it
> > to 1777.  Is there a supported way to locally override BSD.var.dist, or
> > do I need to install mutt setgid mail, or what?
> 
> You get two answers here.
[snip]

Don't install mutt setgid mail, the mutt_dotlock external program is
supposed to be setgid mail. This is what it looks like in my system:

  8 -rwxr-xr-x  1 vallo  wheel    6740 Nov 16 10:48 flea*
480 -rwxr-xr-x  1 vallo  wheel  460808 Nov 16 10:49 mutt*
  8 -rwxr-sr-x  1 vallo  mail     7288 Nov 16 10:49 mutt_dotlock*
  2 -rwxr-xr-x  1 vallo  wheel      26 Nov 16 10:48 muttbug*
  2 -rwxr-xr-x  1 vallo  wheel     274 Nov 16 10:48 pgpewrap*
 24 -rwxr-xr-x  1 vallo  wheel   22700 Nov 16 10:49 pgpring*
-- 

Vallo Kallaste
vallo@matti.ee


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