Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 7 Oct 2003 21:13:36 -0700
From:      "Mike Maltese" <mike@pcmedx.com>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Joe Altman <fj@panix.com>
Subject:   Re: Setting the sticky bit on /var/mail...
Message-ID:  <001801c38d52$8bb4ea30$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com>
References:  <20031008031656.GA1318@panix.com><000d01c38d4b$fcfd53f0$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> <20031008040013.GA14912@panix.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> Absolutely you are correct, and the crowd goes wild with
> applause...thank you.
>

Glad it helped. =)

> I suppose it would be nice to know what set all of the following on
> /var/mail:
>
> opaque nodump uappnd uchg uunlnk
>
> because it sure wasn't me.
>
> Removing them allowed me to set the appropriate bit. Thanks again.

That strikes me as really strange. Any chance another user did this or that
the box was compromised? It seems to be no small coincidence that all the
flags you listed are the ones that don't require root privileges.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?001801c38d52$8bb4ea30$f4f0a8c0>