Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:18:08 -0800 From: Jay Chandler <chandler@chapman.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Permissions Question Message-ID: <45A3DC60.7090209@chapman.edu> In-Reply-To: <200701091449.01739.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <45A2884F.7010405@chapman.edu> <200701091449.01739.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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Malcolm Kay wrote: > I am confused (or someone is). > On all the FreeBSD systems I have immediate access to the file > /etc/mail/aliases has the default permissions -rw-r--r--, in > other words is readable by anyone. On the other > hand /etc/mail/aliases.db is sometimes -rw-r----- and sometimes > -rw-r--r-- but since it is only an encoded version of aliases > and additional restrictions would seem useless. > > I can imagine some might object to reason setting either of these > o+r, but this does seem to be the norm. > > Perhaps someone else has other views. Or perhaps this is some > variation when using profix, qmail etc. in place of sendmail. > > Malcolm > > Postfix is the MTA, but the file itself is NFS shared between all the mailservers, and furthermore is used as part of a script that expects things to be "just so." I inherited this setup, and don't dare start changing the permissions on key files until I understand what every part of the equation expects to see-- an example would be the user mailboxes, wherein the permissions were set incorrectly causing Sendmail to choke (dontblamesendmail has more on this for the curious). -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / chandler@chapman.edu Today's Excuse: user to computer ratio too high.
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