On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:37 am, Jay Chandler wrote: > Sorry for the dumb question this morning-- caffeine hasn't yet > worked its wondrous magic upon my person. > > I've got a user who needs to be able to view (read only) the > aliases file. We'll grant him root access a few weeks after > the eventual heat-death of the universe, so how would you all > go about doing this? > > I've considered allowing him to run a local copy of the > praliases command, but that chokes on the /etc/mail/aliases > permissions...
I am confused (or someone is). On all the FreeBSD systems I have immediate access to the file /etc/mail/aliases has the default permissions -rw-r--r--, in other words is readable by anyone. On the other hand /etc/mail/aliases.db is sometimes -rw-r----- and sometimes -rw-r--r-- but since it is only an encoded version of aliases and additional restrictions would seem useless. I can imagine some might object to reason setting either of these o+r, but this does seem to be the norm. Perhaps someone else has other views. Or perhaps this is some variation when using profix, qmail etc. in place of sendmail. Malcolm > > To complicate things, the file etc/mail/aliases is actually > an NFS mounted file shared between all our mx boxes, and he > only needs to access it from a designated machine. > > Thoughts? My apologies if this is unclear... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
