From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <94E58E8C-697C-4FED-8CBE-A8B696B9F885@9srv.net> <64a2e263f0a11e464ee0ecea93bcfd4b@ladd.quanstro.net> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:20:01 +0100 Message-ID: <8ccc8ba41003221320u4958d5ex84eb3438260f37f3@mail.gmail.com> From: Francisco J Ballesteros To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Creating new mail users; mail -c Topicbox-Message-UUID: ef41749a-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 fold= ers 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 wrote: > On 22 March 2010 13:37, erik quanstrom 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 =C2=A02009 /mail/box > > looks dangerous to me - won't that allow anyone to > rename mailboxes and intercept mail? > >