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On Tuesday 29 Jan 2013 10:19:16 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:37:47 +0000 |
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> |
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> Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Hi All, |
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> > |
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> > I got this message when net-mail/mailbase-1.1 was emerged: |
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> > |
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> > * Messages for package net-mail/mailbase-1.1: |
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> > * Your //var/spool/mail/ directory permissions differ from |
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> > * those which mailbase wants to set it to (03775). |
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> > * If you did not change them on purpose, consider running: |
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> > * |
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> > * chown root:mail //var/spool/mail/ |
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> > * chmod 03775 //var/spool/mail/ |
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> > |
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> > Running this chmod changed access rights from: |
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> > drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Jan 28 19:57 mail |
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> > |
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> > to a sticky-fied: |
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> > drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 4096 Jan 28 19:57 mail |
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> > |
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> > Any idea why are the sticky bits for group and others required? |
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> |
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> sticky for group so that all sub-dirs and files in them are owned by |
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> the mail group. Without it, they would be owned by the user running |
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> "mailx" and the mail system can no longer manager them. |
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> |
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> sticky for others is so that you can't delete my mail but you can still |
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> create your own mail spool files. Identical logic to /tmp (assuming |
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> that you are in the mail group) |
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Thanks Alan, it makes sense now. No one other than mail are in the mail group |
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in this box (my laptop): |
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$ less /etc/group | grep mail |
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mail:x:12:mail |
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I have rkhunter and some cron jobs using ssmtp to email me log info, but they |
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have been running as root. That's why I hadn't experienced a problem with the |
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previous access rights. I wonder why this was picked up in the 1.1 version |
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and not previously - perhaps a test was added on purpose in the ebuild. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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