Re: fhs
Raul Miller writes:
>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
This is a bad idea if the home directory is NFS-mounted from a remote
system; IME file locking under NFS is very easy to get wrong. (Not
that all mailers get locking right even on local file systems...)
Additionally, a system might well have different backup or quota
policies for mail and ordinary user data, which is a good reason to
keep them separate.
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Richard Kettlewell richard@greenend.org.uk richard@elmail.co.uk
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