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Re: misc.c and permissions

1999-05-06 14:12:16
Harry Palmer <hpalmer(_at_)ns1(_dot_)jerky(_dot_)net> writes:
The default behavior for procmail is to enforce strict permissions
(00660 I believe) on mail spool files.  Due to a unique situation on my
mail server I require the files to be 00666.  In misc.c I foudn the
following code:

Can we ask why you would want to do that?  Do you trust everyone who
can run processes on that machine?


...
This seems to accomplish what I was looking for.  Does anyone know if
this will break any other functions of procmail?  Or is there a better
way to accomplish this?

If any of the following mode bits are set on a mailspool, procmail will
not change the permission on it:

        user execute
        sticky

So, pre-creating the mailboxes with permissions 766 or 1666 should
work.


Philip Guenther

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