Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!uceng!kamat From: kamat@uceng.UC.EDU (Govind N. Kamat) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: HP-UX problems and suggestions (s800) Message-ID:Date: 1 Oct 89 19:47:54 GMT References: <1717@zen.co.uk> <4310060@hpindda.HP.COM> Organization: College of Engg., University of Cincinnati Lines: 23 In-reply-to: human@hpindda.HP.COM's message of 28 Sep 89 23:33:43 GMT In article <4310060@hpindda.HP.COM> human@hpindda.HP.COM (Aaron Schuman) writes: Frank> Another example: because of unnecessarily liberal file Frank> permissions, it is not hard to snoop on mail as it is Frank> being processed by sendmail(1M). Denying 'other' read / Frank> search permissions on one directory solves the problem. David> We do ship [the directory] world-readable/searchable. If I remember correctly, the last HP-UX update (from 3.0 to 3.1) seemed to have its own ideas about this and changed the mode of our spool directory to 777. And that's not all -- the same treatment was given a number of other directories and files, and the /usr/local/man tree was summarily deleted. It's rather ridiculous if customers' filesystems are messed around with in such a callous manner. -- Govind N. Kamat College of Engineering kamat@uceng.UC.EDU University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA