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- From: cd382@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jim Walker)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.vms-posix
- Subject: Re: POSIX$SCRATCH world writable?
- Date: 6 Nov 1992 18:37:08 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1dee0kINNhpm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1992Nov3.115453.1@uwovax.uwo.ca>
- Reply-To: cd382@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jim Walker)
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- In a previous article, brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) says:
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- > POSIX has installed POSIX$SCRATCH as world writable on my system.
- >
- >a) is this necessary?
- >b) this violates my VMS system managers security sensibility.
- > Any work-around? Do you as a POSIX manager accept this?
-
- I as a system manager do not accept any world writable directory.
- In the past we have had problems with people bypassing their disk
- quota by storing the overflow on the system disk where unknown to
- me a software product has created a world writable directory.
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- I prefer not to enable disk quotas on my system disk. It's
- hard enough keeping track of disk quotas on the user disks.
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- Now whenever I install anything I look for world writable files
- and immediately call the manufacturer to ask what will break when
- I protect them properly.
-