Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 23:05:36 -0500 (EST) From: Maelmord <maelmord@impweb.net> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: Fred Souza <cseg@kronus.com.br>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pine 4.21 port issues? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008082301310.99468-100000@impweb.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008082253090.410-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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Personally, I still prefer 755 regardless of the explanation why they want 1777. Yes, the sticky bit is useful for having them not delete another user's spool and replace it with a different one, but it also allows users to use /var/mail as a personal /tmp.. which is not such a good thing if you have /var or /var/mail as a seperate mount point The chance of running out of space and losing mail is too great. 755 on the otherhand keeps it clean and devoted to mail I've always preferred having the spool kept in the user's directory tho. /home is a seperate mount point, and makes backups/upgrades simpler as that drive isnt touched. --Chris On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Matt Heckaman wrote: > Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:55:00 -0400 (EDT) > From: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> > To: Fred Souza <cseg@kronus.com.br> > Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: pine 4.21 port issues? > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Fred Souza wrote: > ... > : Going again into the silly root.mail 1777 solved the problem, but I > : definately don't like that idea. Any pointers on how to get rid of that? > > Yeah, just do what someone suggested and what I just put in over here, it > gets rid of the messages and doesn't hurt anything that I've seen. > > Create /usr/local/etc/pine.conf.fixed, in it put: > > feature-list= quell-lock-failure-warnings > > That'll enforce that option on all pine clients, effectively shutting up > the message. I doubt running pine with /var/mail root:mail 0775 will hurt > anything, I've *always* ran it that way. > > : Cheers, > : Fred N Souza. > > * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.qc.ca http://www.lucida.qc.ca/ * > * GPG fingerprint - A9BC F3A8 278E 22F2 9BDA BFCF 74C3 2D31 C035 5390 * > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.2 (FreeBSD) > Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp > > iD8DBQE5kMgFdMMtMcA1U5ARAusJAJ4weCAbsNYotLJ+G2ppXOirPa6KQwCeMNbc > W9pZh6FI5tk0/QKJXDltvvI= > =TFrt > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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