Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:47:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> To: jacks@sage-american.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1777 Protection Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108280742450.350-100000@pogo.caustic.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20010828093856.01151810@mail.sage-american.com>
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2001 jacks@sage-american.com wrote:
> Early setup of a BSD box with Pine, when exiting Pine, I get a warning
> about "vunerable /var/mail should have 1777 protection"... I assume that
> means a chmod needed...? But, what is 1777...?
from the chmod (1) man page:
1000 (the sticky bit) When set on a directory, unprivileged
users can delete and rename only those files in the direc-
tory that are owned by them, regardless of the permissions
on the directory. Under FreeBSD, the sticky bit is ignored
for executable files and may only be set for directories
the 777 sets the directory to having full "read, write, and
execute" permissions for the directory for everyone on the machine.
hope this helps a little,
-- jan
-------/ f. johan beisser /--------------------------------------+
http://caustic.org/~jan jan@caustic.org
"if my thought-dreams could be seen..
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