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Date:      Fri, 7 Jun 1996 19:54:47 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua>
To:        dima@sivka.rdy.com (Dima Ruban)
Cc:        pst@shockwave.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD's /var/mail permissions
Message-ID:  <199606071654.TAA24303@office.elvisti.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <960607084817.ZM3926@sivka.rdy.com> from "Dima Ruban" at Jun 7, 96 08:48:17 am

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# > Proposed solution:
# >     I'm considering creating group "mail" and going the setgid route,
# >     so that a program which creates files in /var/mail can be simply
# >     setgid mail.
# 
# Agreed. More than that, something like a year ago (maybe even more)
# I've created mail group and changed modes on /var/mail. It works just perfect
# and solve me whole bunch of problems.

	While you men are on the topic, what about a group "logger"
	and have /dev/log be 0660 root:logger?
	instead of 666 root:wheel?

	(daemon should belong to logger, too)

-- 

	With best regards -- Andrew Stesin.

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	"You may delegate authority, but not responsibility."
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