Re: [9fans] Creating new mail users; mail -c

[Francisco J Ballesteros <nemo@lsub.org>]

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.

mail2fs has the same problem. I run it from a cron on my name, thus my folders
have 770 or 775 and not 777. But, if you want to run this, say, as
user none, you
need to open it up.

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:50 PM, roger peppe <rogpeppe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 March 2010 13:37, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>>> So... how is the mail -c call in newuser supposed to work for normal
>>> (ie: not in group sys) users?
>>
>> this is how the permissions were set up in 2005 on my machine:
>>
>> ; ls -ld /mail/box
>> d-rwxrwxrwx M 456741 upas upas 0 Jul 15  2009 /mail/box
>
> looks dangerous to me - won't that allow anyone to
> rename mailboxes and intercept mail?
>
>