From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 12 16:26:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20090 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:26:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20081 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:26:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA22406; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:25:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 16:25:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: "Brian C. Grayson" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/mail mode changed??? In-Reply-To: <19981111203750.B28874@marvin.ece.utexas.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Brian C. Grayson wrote: > I did an install of FreeBSD today, and it clobbered permissions > on our NFS-mounted /var/mail (changed the group to 6, which > doesn't map to anything on our other machines, and changed > permissions from 01777 to 0775). Is there any way of controlling > whether or not the install should do this? It's a bit > disconcerting, as after the change mutt is not able to read mail > without overriding dotlocking, which might confuse the average user. > > I realize 01777 isn't the safest setting, but it works for us > on our collection of operating systems and mail clients and > daemons. Maybe the install could prompt if it saw an existing > /var/mail that was NFS-mounted??? You are aware of the dangers of a NFS mounted /var/mail, aren't you? In general it's highly discouraged due to potential spool corruption. To improve the permissions on the mail spool, make all of your mail program sgid mail. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message