Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 02:03:39 +1200 From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> To: Mike Holling <myke@ees.com> Cc: 0x1c <nick@shibumi.feralmonkey.org>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp home dir mode 777? Message-ID: <199904021403.CAA16855@aniwa.sky> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Apr 1999 23:39:09 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904012338170.19754-100000@phluffy.fks.bt>
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> > On my 2.2.8-REL box and my 3.1-REL box the modes for use uucp's home dir > > are both 777. Is there any particular reasoning behind this? > > UUCP requires the "public" directory to be mode 777. If you don't use > UUCP, you can get rid of it altogether. > > - Mike I don't use UUCP, and have disabled it. I have wondered though if this public home dir was exploitable. There was discussion a while back about removing uucp from the base install and putting it in a port instead. Andrew -- ----------- Andrew McNaughton andrew@squiz.co.nz http://www.newsroom.co.nz/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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