Re: [vps-mail] Sigh... more permissions problems

[Scott Wiersdorf <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 09:58:27PM -0700, Abigail Marshall wrote:
> I figured out that all mail users on the system are members
> of the group "pop"
> 
> I seem to have solved this problem by changing ownership of
> promail.log to:
> 
> -rw-rw-rw-  1 root  pop  30716 Apr 11 21:30 procmail.log

Doesn't 664 (or 660) work? You've still got a world-writable file with
666 (permissions of the devil). All anyone has to do is "cat /dev/null
> /var/log/procmail.log" and your log has been wiped out.

<snip>

> Anyway, no more help needed, it's just that after all these
> years working in a VPS1 environment, I'm finding the
> permissions issue hard to get a handle on.

You're not alone. I think lots of people are going through the same
issues.

Scott
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