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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
