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- From: wb@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de (Wilhelm B. Kloke)
- Subject: Re: POSIX$SCRATCH world writable?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.073008.16557@arb-phys.uni-dortmund.de>
- Organization: Institut f. Arbeitsphysiologie a.d. Uni Dortmund
- References: <1992Nov3.115453.1@uwovax.uwo.ca> <1dee0kINNhpm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 07:30:08 GMT
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- In article <1dee0kINNhpm@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> cd382@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jim Walker) writes:
- >
- >In a previous article, brent@uwovax.uwo.ca (Brent Sterner) says:
- >
- >> POSIX has installed POSIX$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.
- >
- >I prefer not to enable disk quotas on my system disk. It's
- >hard enough keeping track of disk quotas on the user disks.
- Being a VMS system manager, I do enable disk quota on the system disk
- and I give some Accounts (System) unlimited quota. I just don't want to
- fill up the disk space of the system disk be used up by users.
- Is there a better use of quota than to protect the usability of the
- system at all?
- >
- >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.
- So what does the manufacturer say to the original problem. Is ist
- Don't use VMS-POSIX?
- I am quite sure that the functionality of POSIX depends on the world
- writability of POSIX$SCRATCH.
- --
- Dipl.-Math. Wilhelm Bernhard Kloke,
- Institut fuer Arbeitsphysiologie an der Universitaet Dortmund
- Ardeystrasse 67, D-4600 Dortmund 1, Tel. 0231-1084-257
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