From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Nov 7 21: 3:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD1C737B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 21:03:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp01.wlv.untd.com (smtp01.wlv.untd.com [209.247.163.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 19B1B43E75 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 21:03:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from idiot1@netzero.net) Received: (qmail 256 invoked from network); 8 Nov 2002 05:03:26 -0000 Received: from dialup-65.58.232.135.dial1.tampa1.level3.net (HELO netzero.net) (65.58.232.135) by smtp01.wlv.untd.com with SMTP; 8 Nov 2002 05:03:26 -0000 Message-ID: <3DCB459D.4ACFB535@netzero.net> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 00:03:25 -0500 From: Kirk Bailey Organization: Silas Dent Memorial Cabal of ERIS Esoteric and hot dog boiling society X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: aliases and permissions and lists, oh my... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org OK, I am writing a script to create email lists- and another to destroy them. Could not write to the aliases file, so I changed the permissions. BAD IDEA. Well, I got the email system working again when I restored (?) permissions. But now it is only writable by the owner, root. Hmmm, do I REALLY want a script accessed by all the world to run as root? Any discussion on this matter? -- end Respectfully, Kirk D Bailey +---------------------"Thou Art Free." -Eris-----------------------+ | http://www.howlermonkey.net mailto:highprimate@howlermonkey.net | | KILL spam dead! http://www.scambusters.org/stopspam/#Pledge | | http://www.tinylist.org +--------+ mailto:grumpy@tinylist.org | +------------------Thinking| NORMAL |Thinking----------------------+ +--------+ --------------------------------------------- Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message