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Date:      Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:06:57 +0200
From:      Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Making /var/mail mode 1777 (was Re: Installing sendmail SUID  installworld suggestion)
Message-ID:  <E1HRnnN-000LN7-Jt@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <20070315103800.GU56342@over-yonder.net> 
References:  <200703151035.l2FAZjKa097746@lurza.secnetix.de>  <20070315103800.GU56342@over-yonder.net>

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> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:35:45AM +0100 I heard the voice of
> Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > What's the best way to prevent that?  I tried editing the
> > appropriate mtree file, but that feels like a hack rather
> > than a clean solution.
> 
> Well, I did it by the hack of stuffing a 'chmod 1777' in rc.local...
> 
in /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist, change
...
    mail            gname=mail mode=0775
to
    mail            gname=mail mode=1777

see also /etc/rc.d/var

danny





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