Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:10:31 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Crispin <MRC@Panda.COM> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...) Message-ID: <MailManager.846796231.5917.mrc@Ikkoku-Kan.Panda.COM> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.961031154501.8545K-100000@quagmire.ki.net>
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:48:28 -0500 (EST), Marc G. Fournier wrote: > 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? No, you don't. 775/setgid is the other religion, adhered to by many SVR4 and Linux systems. They think they a monopoly on the truth, just like the FreeBSD people with the 755/system-call-lock religion. > > 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. Yes, it does. But people do it. They do it even after they are told not to do it. I haven't even mentioned the PC users who expect to NFS-mount a UNIX mail spool using their PC NFS software and read their mail on the PC using Eudora. "The horror, the horror..." > 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 I don't understand what you gain by giving a "Your mail file is NFS mounted, I won't let you read it" error. Anyway, there is no portable way to determine if a directory is NFS-mounted. There was an undocumented portable way on SVR4, but SUN broke it in Solaris 2.5.
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