Malcolm Kay wrote:
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
The following suggestion should work for both problems and avoid the
difficulties I saw with the other solutions.
Write an executable (Korn shell) script owned by the owner of the
files to be examined (thus he should have all the access he needs)
which checks the user-id of its caller [effective
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 1:01 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/8/07, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could configure sudo to give him access to run that one
command as root.
One has to be very careful about giving out such access!
root has much power.
Hence sudo, where
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
Jay Chandler wrote:
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?
Hand him some sheets of printout?
Cheers,
Matthew
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:07 pm, Jay Chandler wrote:
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?
You could configure sudo to give
I've never used them, but wasn't ACL written just for this scenario?
On 1/8/07, Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:07 pm, Jay Chandler wrote:
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
On Monday 08 January 2007 12:57 pm, Andy Greenwood wrote:
I've never used them, but wasn't ACL written just for this scenario?
Perhaps, but that seems like a lot more effort to accomplish a relatively
easy job.
--
Kirk Strauser
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Matthew Seaman wrote:
Jay Chandler wrote:
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?
Hand him some sheets of printout?
Jay Chandler writes:
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?
Hand him some sheets of printout?
Robert Huff wrote:
Jay Chandler writes:
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?
Hand him some sheets of
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
Duane Winner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't know if I am having a brainfart, something is different, or if
I never had it right to begin with:
I need to have a shared directory for apache web content:
/usr/local/htmlstuff
And a group, htmlguys, and several users will be members of
Jay O'Brien wrote:
I found how to get around this problem, and it isn't permissions
at all. On the other web server I use, I use relative and shortened
addressing on links, for example /xyz which, when selected by the
user, would then send the user the /xyz/home.html file, in the xyz
Hello,
I don't know if I am having a brainfart, something is different, or if I
never had it right to begin with:
I need to have a shared directory for apache web content:
/usr/local/htmlstuff
And a group, htmlguys, and several users will be members of that group.
I would like to have the root
I think this is a permissions issue. I just installed Apache13,
and it works fine on my LAN using a fixed local IP. I opened
port 80 in my Linksys router, and from the internet I can now
get to my home page over the internet, using my fixed IP.
From my local LAN I can use links on my home
Jay O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think this is a permissions issue. I just installed Apache13,
and it works fine on my LAN using a fixed local IP. I opened
port 80 in my Linksys router, and from the internet I can now
get to my home page over the internet, using my fixed IP.
From
Jay O'Brien wrote:
I think this is a permissions issue. I just installed Apache13,
and it works fine on my LAN using a fixed local IP. I opened
port 80 in my Linksys router, and from the internet I can now
get to my home page over the internet, using my fixed IP.
From my local LAN I can
Bill Moran wrote:
Sounds like your links are pointing to the private IP address, which
isn't accessable from the Internet at large.
If this is the case, fix your links. Otherwise, please provide some
more information about the symptoms. I doubt there is any sort of
permission problem.
Not sure where this goes; I'm also posting it to the sendmail Usenet
group.
I've been having what is apparently a fairly common problem with my
sendmail configuration; every time a message is delivered I get a warning
of the type Aug 5 00:25:53 babelfish sendmail[39666]: h757PrRD039666:
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