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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!nntp.uio.no!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What permissions for popper and directory? Date: 25 Oct 1996 08:47:31 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <54pur3$897@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <326f93aa.0@news.fast.net.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E sean@neptune.fast.net.uk (Sean B Purdy) wrote: > What permissions must /usr/local/libexec/popper and /var/mail have for > popper to write its temporary files in /var/mail when called from inetd? Nothing special, popper runs under root UID. AFAIK, it takes care for changing the UID later. > Should /var/mail really be chmod 777? Never. Not even 1777. This has been beaten to death, _don't_ muck with the permissions of /var/mail. -- 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. ;-)