Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:40:35 +0200 (CEST) From: A.Leidinger@WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de To: Anthony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: group bits Message-ID: <199908061140.NAA01057@work.net.local> In-Reply-To: <14249.52685.50332.808817@avalon.east>
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On 5 Aug, Anthony Kimball wrote: > My specific motivation is that everytime I cvsup, I have to patch > sendmail and ppp to suppress their group-writable-config /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README: ---snip--- confUNSAFE_GROUP_WRITES UnsafeGroupWrites [False] If set, group-writable :include: and .forward files are considered "unsafe", that is, programs and files cannot be directly referenced from such files. World-writable files are always considered unsafe. ---snip--- should do it. Bye, Alexander. -- Hey, it's not like the whole building burned down. http://netchild.home.pages.de A.Leidinger+Home @ WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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