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Date:      Tue, 24 Dec 1996 08:37:07 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        mbarkah@hemi.com (Ade Barkah)
Subject:   Re: That uucppublic directory...
Message-ID:  <199612240737.IAA10140@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199612240038.RAA20048@hemi.com> from Ade Barkah at "Dec 23, 96 05:38:01 pm"

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As Ade Barkah wrote:

>    drwxrwxrwx   2 uucp  uucp    512 Dec 23 17:20 uucppublic/
> 
> Maybe the default permissions for the above should be different ?

Not if you wanna allow UUCP file transfers.  That's why it is called a
`pubdir' -- everybody can upload there.  No, even `t' bits won't do
any good, since the user who's received a file from remote should be
able to delete the file there, but the way it arrived from outside,
it's owned by `uucp'.

Of course, if you don't need that service at all, or ar going to
organize this in a different way (e.g. by arranging for a UUCP
directory in the people's homedir), you can safely remove it.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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