Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:48:28 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Mark Crispin <MRC@Panda.COM> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961031154501.8545K-100000@quagmire.ki.net> In-Reply-To: <MailManager.846762777.5917.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM>
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Mark Crispin wrote: > Sigh. Where does this nonsense about "touch" or editors or kernel mods comes > from? > > Let me try again, nice and simple. > > /var/mail protected 775 and in group mail. > All mail readers protected 2755 and in group mail. > This is what some systems do when they don't want to grant world write. More > systems do this than use system call locking. Many more. > Wait, we were talking about 1777'd /var/mail, not 775...I don't have the option with your software of setting /var/mail to 775..or do I? > For your information, there are sites which use imapd to access NFS-mounted > spools. > Sounds like that defeats the purpose (or, perceived purpose) of IMAP...personally, I think that if 1777 is considered "appropriate" for IMAP, there should also be a check to see if the spool is NFS-mounted and give an error accordingly for that too...775 might be bad to you, but NFS-mounted spools are worse IMHO... Marc G. Fournier scrappy@ki.net Systems Administrator @ ki.net scrappy@freebsd.org
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