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Re: Bug#64605: Gets confused if repacking in user home directory



On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 06:37:23AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 12:14:59AM +1000, Timshel Knoll wrote:
> > Are you sure?? It doesn't do this on my 2.2.15 box:
> > 
> [snip example]
> 
> yes the problem is my test was on a NFS mounted /home. on local
> filesystems it works as you describe.  files however always have the s
> bits removed, as they should. 

Yes, files created in a sgid directory won't be sgid. Now that would be
one serious security flaw :)

> BTW, your Mail-followup-to is fscked, you only have your username, no
> domain, so mutt trys to send a message to timshel on my machine... 

Hopefully I've fixed it now (sending it to myself doesn't put a
Mail-followup-to header in) ... I had 'set nouse_domain' in my
~/.muttrc - I can't even find out what it does (it doesn't seem
to be in the mutt manual)

Thanks for letting me know ...

Timshel

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              http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~tiknoll
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