Re: fhs
>>>>> Raul Miller writes:
[quotation removed]
> I think you should look at this issue a bit differently. In one
> sense, both policies are broken -- delivering mail to a spool
> directory requires sgid programs for the user to read mail (in the
> usual sense). A more secure and more robust solution would be to
> deliver mail directly into the user's home directory. For example,
> echo $HOME/Mailbox >$HOME/.forward
That might work for you, but not for others: If your home directory
is located in an AFS volume, then you will either need to open the
directory to a certain pseudo-group/user for WRITES or your sendmail
(or whatever) will need to run with the CellAdministrator token.
Not good.
And /var/mail is standardized (to my knowledge) by SVID and XPG, so
why re-invent the wheel again?
Dominik
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