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Date:      Sat, 15 Nov 1997 13:19:25 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How useful is this patch
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.971115131433.16642A-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199711151830.TAA21413@intern>

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yes, but it's been devreed 'un-needed' by core an dprobably won't appear
there for a while.
I will put up a 2.2.5 relative version of the patch..
it will be ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/suiddir.diff.2.2

look for it in an hour or so..
(back to the old 'patchkit' days.. :)


On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Andre Albsmeier wrote:

> > of course,
> > but who said that you have to enable it in you HOME directory?
> > We want to do this in users 'dropbox' directories
> > which is not the same as their ho,e directories.
> > without it there is a never-ending set of complaints about
> > permissions, and the admin spends a lot of time removing files for users.
> > As is indicated.. this is implemented as a mount option (default off)
> > and the directory in question must have the bit set..
> > it isn't likely to happen by accident.
> > We can keep it as a WHISTLE-ONLY mod here, but I thought
> > I'd see if anyone else wants it..
> > I'd rather have it in the general sources than proprietary,
> > but That's a decision that's beyond me to make..
> > (i.e. yours).
> 
> Count me on side of people who want it :-) I have got to deal
> with the problem a long time now and I am really tired of it...
> 
> However, best would be to see it in 2.2.5...
> 
> 	-Andre
> 




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