Hi there,

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Justin Zygmont wrote:

> I'm suprised to see that I cannot add [write] permissions to others for 
> the /var/lock dorectory.  It just stays at 775.  Has anyone else had this 
> or know why?  i'm using rh9.
> 

You can, but I think you'll find that in your startup scripts, Red Hat
have put a command which sets those permissions at boot time.  It's a
historical Unix-type thing.  You shouldn't need to be doing that to
files in /var/lock anyway, it's a terrible security hole.

73,
Ged.

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