A few questions for everyone
In your message of Tue, 15 Feb 1994 02:56:00 PST, you write:
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| >/var/spool/mail should be mode 1777 root.mail. (Note the sticky bit.) This
| >is the recommended permission for RMAIL (or at least it was in Emacs 18) to
| >work.
|
| This is false. /var/spool/mail should be 2775 (or perhaps 0775) and
| group owner mail. Anything that needs to access (lock) mailboxes
| needs to be sgid mail.
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Well, there's what RMS recommends and what everyone else recommends. I know
of several attacks myself, but I also remember a sizeable flamewar when RMS
"defended" his choice against all comers...
MH "inc" is sgid mail and suid root (the latter for RPOP). I did find and fix
a bug in the interaction of the two options.
++Brandon
--
Brandon S. Allbery kf8nh@kf8nh.ampr.org bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org
"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years
of careful development." ---dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca
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