Re: Sending faxes with efax as a normal user
>>>>> "Neilen" == Neilen Marais <brick@adept.co.za> writes:
Neilen> The permissions on /var/lock are:
Neilen> drwxr-xr-t 3 root root 1024 Dec 21 17:18 /var/lock/
Neilen> so, users should not be allowed to write. I assume its this
Neilen> way for a reason.
On my system, I have this:
ggeens@andor:/home$ ls -ld /var/lock
drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 120 Dec 25 18:20 /var/lock
This allows everyone to create lockfiles, but a user may only delete
files owned by themselves.
AFAIK, this is the default setting. I don't know why your system is
different.
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