From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 14 3:39:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1046337C685 for ; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 03:39:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 16955 invoked from network); 14 Jul 2000 10:39:18 -0000 Received: from adsl-117-113.ln.networkone.net (HELO reader.ptw.com) (209.144.117.113) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 14 Jul 2000 10:39:18 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.ptw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id DAA05248; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 03:39:15 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: reader.ptw.com: reader set sender to reader@newsguy.com using -f To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/mail Read only with mutt References: <87sntfapy5.fsf@satellite.local.lan> <20000713150234.G48641@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> From: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: Ben Smithurst's message of "Thu, 13 Jul 2000 15:02:34 +0100" Date: 14 Jul 2000 03:05:44 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ben Smithurst writes: > . . . . . . . I prefer to make /var/mail mode 1777 (i.e. > world writable with the sticky bit, like /tmp). Just do a 'chmod 1777 > /var/mail'. If you intend to upgrade using make world, you should put > this command in /etc/rc.local or somewhere since the upgrade will reset > /var/mail to its default mode (775). > Chmod 1777 cured the problem, but does it raise any tricky security problems? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message