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. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 "You may delegate authority, but not responsibility." Frank's Management Rule #1.
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