Am Montag, 14. Juli 2003 08:28 schrieb Ged Haywood: > 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. >
You could change the lock-directory in your .dosemurc for example to $_ttylocks = "/home/user/dosemu/lock" and the problem with wright permission and security is solved. Regards Claudia - 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
