Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:55:08 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Doug Lee <dgl@visi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best /var/mail permissions? Message-ID: <200008010155.e711t8d08090@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007311935140.346-100000@kirk.dsl.visi.com>
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On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:39:18 -0500 (CDT) Doug Lee wrote:
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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?
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I'd be concerned about making this directory anyu kind of 777. There are
probably a few race conditions that could be exploited when deleting and
creating mail folders. Of course if these conditions are being exploited
you probably have other problems too ;-)
What's pine tucking up there that it needs world write for anyway?
chris
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