Re: Filepriviledge checking (a poll) (was: vacation)

[Daniel R Ehrlich <ehrlich@cse.psu.edu>]

>This undoubtly has more common interest..
>
>> > > Has anyone gotten the vacation program (the one that comes with zmailer)
 
>> > > to work?  Something bounces back saying "mail to program disallowed".
>> > > Thanks.
>> > 
>> > 	See if:
>> > 		- ~user -directory has protection wider than 755
>> > 		- ~user/.forward has protections wider than 644
>> > 		- ~user/.forward is not owned by the same user as
>> > 		  ~user -directory is (~user can be owned by the root)
>> 
>> 	Yes, that indeed is what was happening.  Is there a way
>> 	(including changing source code modifications) to make zmailer 
>> 	accept ~user directories with group-write permissions?   Or where
>> 	should I be looking if I want to tweak .forward permission checking
>> 	to my liking?
>
>	router/conf.c: filepriv_mask -variable.
>
>	See associated comments.
>
>	A poll:  Should that be settable from a cf-file ?
>		 Should it be TWO mask varibles ?  One for
>		 the file, another for the directory ?
>

I would vote for two variables.  Having group writable files and directories
would be a big plus.

Dan Ehrlich - Systems Analyst - PSU Computer Science and Engineering
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