From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] permission bit of /mail/box In-Reply-To: <200309212150.h8LLoej01186@augusta.math.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-vfajhmccqvqefvpjsauhfmpked" Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:40:49 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3f5f6144-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-vfajhmccqvqefvpjsauhfmpked Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Actually, I meant it without qualifiers. We have 2^9 possible permissions. One of them is to allow anyone (that can attach the fs) to do anything. I can see when that's a useful thing. For the /mail/box directory its a bit too much. Geoff Collyer suggested making the 'a' bit on directories mean that you can't rename files (ala unix sticky bit?). I wouldn't mind that for the mail directory. --upas-vfajhmccqvqefvpjsauhfmpked Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Sun Sep 21 17:51:37 EDT 2003 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Sun Sep 21 17:51:35 EDT 2003 Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 4C02419B8A; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:51:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.20.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 4BFF419B1F; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:51:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Original-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server, from userid 60001) id 1AF6019B52; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:50:49 -0400 (EDT) Received: from math.psu.edu (leibniz.math.psu.edu [146.186.130.2]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 7D34919B1F for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:50:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from augusta.math.psu.edu (augusta.math.psu.edu [146.186.132.2]) by math.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA22325 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:50:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from augusta.math.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by augusta.math.psu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h8LLoej01186 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:50:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200309212150.h8LLoej01186@augusta.math.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] permission bit of /mail/box In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Sep 2003 09:29:55 EDT." <77039d6c59c342f67caf5e2532653730@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: Dan Cross Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 17:50:40 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) > There's nothing wrong with having directories anyone can do anything in. With qualifiers. It depends on who's doing those things. Or, perhaps more importantly, how much you trust them. - Dan C. --upas-vfajhmccqvqefvpjsauhfmpked--