Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:39:18 -0500 (CDT) From: Doug Lee <dgl@visi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Best /var/mail permissions? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007311935140.346-100000@kirk.dsl.visi.com>
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Pine wants me to set mode 1777 on /var/mail, and doing so makes Pine much faster at some operations like expunge and checking for new mail when I hit `n' at the end of the message index. `make world' seems to reset /var/mail to 770 however. I know mode 1777 lets users slip files up to their quota limits into /var/mail but know of no other dangers to that mode. Is there a major reason I should not (or should, for that matter) use mode 1777 for /var/mail? -- Doug Lee dgl@visi.com http://www.visi.com/~dgl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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