[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.73-BETA-2 is available

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jan 19 15:09:38 EST 2012


On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:21 PM, David F. Skoll <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
>
>> "make install" still creates /var/spool/MIMEDefang with mode 0700,
>> though, so people who need group readability will probably still have
>> to manually chmod it to 0750 or something, after installing.
>
> Bah, never thought of that... what do you think of MIMEDefang chmoding
> it on startup if the '-G' option is given?  I'm not really crazy
> about that idea... I might just document in the man page that you should
> chmod /var/spool/MIMEDefang if necessary.

What's the point of having groups if you don't give things group
readability?  Especially with the Red Hat style of putting every user
in his own group by default so no one will have access by accident.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com



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