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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 92 15:08:33 GMT
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- From: MIKE WILDER <MWILDER@FRMNVAX1>
- Subject: Problem with TMP files and security
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- I have what I know is probably a real simple problem, but I can't for the life
- of me find the solution. I don't think it's a PMDF problem but rather a
- VMSMail problem (I know it's hard to believe :-). The problem seems to be that
- temporary files created on SYS$SCRATCH are being created with SYSTEM as the
- owner instead of the user. When VMSMail tries to open the file (as in a
- FORWARD or REPLY) or tries to delete it upon exiting, a security violation
- obviously occurs. I've watched the files as they get created and sometimes
- they are created with correct owner and sometimes not; I don't see a pattern.
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- One solution I've pondered is to define SYS$SCRATCH to SYS$LOGIN, but we use
- disk quotas on the users' drive and not on the system drive where SYS$SCRATCH
- is defined to be. Doing this could very quickly lead to quota overruns. Even
- then, I don't know if it will cure the ownershipproblem.
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- If there's any information that I can provide that will help, please let me
- know. Like I said, this is not a PMDF problem; I'm asking here because all you
- folks are so good about helping and I'm a new sys mgr who needs help with a
- simple problem.
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