From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <44e316d676994d41d7b0811b31da8b08@brasstown.quanstro.net> References: <94E58E8C-697C-4FED-8CBE-A8B696B9F885@9srv.net> <64a2e263f0a11e464ee0ecea93bcfd4b@ladd.quanstro.net> <8ccc8ba41003221320u4958d5ex84eb3438260f37f3@mail.gmail.com> <44e316d676994d41d7b0811b31da8b08@brasstown.quanstro.net> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:24:53 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e61003221424j77534f93te1d7d56a9087964c@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd48b74f038fb04826a53bf Subject: Re: [9fans] Creating new mail users; mail -c Topicbox-Message-UUID: ef4e3176-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd48b74f038fb04826a53bf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:55 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Mon Mar 22 16:22:15 EDT 2010, nemo@lsub.org wrote: > > It would help being able to "append" to a directory, i.e., being able to > > create new files but not to, say, remove, already created files. > > i considered modifying the fileserver to do something similar > for nupas. perhaps reusing the 'a' bit. but in the end, i didn't > do it as we weren't having a problem. i use the mode 773 for > mailboxes which can be delivered to by other users and 700 > for mailboxes which can't be delivered to by other users. denying > read access at least makes it annoying to guess all the mail files > in the mbox. > > (thanks to anthony for a recent fix to splitmbox.) > > russ had a specific objection to "append" directories. i don't > recall how the argument went. > Is it because you can bind in new stuff to a directory if you need it? > > - erik > > --000e0cd48b74f038fb04826a53bf Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:55 PM, erik qu= anstrom <quan= stro@quanstro.net> wrote:
On Mon Mar 22 16:22:15 EDT 2010, nemo@lsub.org wrote:
> It would help being able to "append" to a directory, i.e., b= eing able to
> create new files but not to, say, remove, already created files.

i considered modifying the fileserver to do something similar
for nupas. =A0perhaps reusing the 'a' bit. =A0but in the end, i did= n't
do it as we weren't having a problem. =A0i use the mode 773 for
mailboxes which can be delivered to by other users and 700
for mailboxes which can't be delivered to by other users. =A0denying read access at least makes it annoying to guess all the mail files
in the mbox.

(thanks to anthony for a recent fix to splitmbox.)

russ had a specific objection to "append" directories. =A0i don&#= 39;t
recall how the argument went.

Is it bec= ause you can bind in new stuff to a directory if you need it?
=A0=

- erik


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