Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 16:22:07 +0200 From: Thomas Bader <thomas@t-bader.ch> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best /var/mail permissions? Message-ID: <20000801162207.C2814@home.t-bader.ch> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007312102280.346-100000@kirk.dsl.visi.com>; from dgl@visi.com on Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 09:05:06PM -0500 References: <200008010155.e711t8d08090@fedde.littleton.co.us> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007312102280.346-100000@kirk.dsl.visi.com>
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* Doug Lee <dgl@visi.com> [000801 04:05]: > Pine claims to share the locking scheme used by most mail delivery agents, > so it can coordinate with the delivery agents and avoid corrupting > mailboxes. This locking scheme involves creating a lock file in > /var/mail, which Pine can't do without the 1777 permissions because it > runs as the user. In my experience, if I don't give it the 1777 perms in > /var/mail, it uses file locking techniques but takes noticeably more time > at it. With 1777, it's really snappy. :-) But 1777 made me nervous, and > that's why I'm here. :-) Why you don't just do the following chmod 1775 /var/mail chgrp mail /var/mail chmod g+s /usr/local/bin/pine chgrp mail /usr/local/bin/pine This would grant write permissions to pine. Thomas --=20 .-. Thomas Bader =B7 thomasb@trash.net.remove =B7 http://www.t-bader.ch= / .-. oo| o= o| /`'\ Einen Unix-Shellaccount gibt es unter http://www.trash.net/ /`= '\ (\_;/) PGP Key-ID: 0x3A4B7F5D (RSA) 0x7584F5D8 (DSA/EG) (\_= ;/) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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