Joel Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Dave Sill wrote:
>
>> Brad Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >All you have to do is create it as root and make it readable by the mail
>> >process for the user. They can read it, but they can't replace it.
>>
>> Not true. If the user can write the directory, they can replace it.
>
>They can _read_ it, but not write to it at all. :-) Maildir and other
>files / directories must be made by root and chown'ed to the user.
I didn't say "write", I said "replace". E.g.:
Script started on Tue Mar 16 15:39:17 1999
sh-2.00$ ls -la
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 2 de5 user 40 Mar 16 15:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 54 de5 user 20480 Mar 16 15:37 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root sys 0 Mar 16 15:38 bar
-rw-r--r-- 1 de5 user 0 Mar 16 15:39 typescript
sh-2.00$ cat bar
sh-2.00$ echo foo>bar
sh: bar: Permission denied
sh-2.00$ rm bar
bar: 444 mode. Remove ? (yes/no)[no] : y
sh-2.00$ ls -la
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 2 de5 user 28 Mar 16 15:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 54 de5 user 20480 Mar 16 15:37 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 de5 user 0 Mar 16 15:39 typescript
sh-2.00$ exit
script done on Tue Mar 16 15:39:53 1999
-Dave
