At 12:42 +0530 17 Aug 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So it's true that / is world writeable in OSX? Ouch.
As has already been pointed out it's only group writeable. I don't
think there's a sendmail config option to make it ignore world-writeable
directories. And as long as the group contains only trusted people, I
don't see this as much of a problem.
> A chmod or two (and avoiding the use of HFS - which might break compatiblity
> with older Mac OSen) might be a great idea before compiling any *nix stuff -
Older versions of Mac OS only support HFS, so they won't work with UFS
at all. And from what I hear some programs even have trouble running in
OS X on UFS. As for the chmod part, I also hear that various system
updates will reset the permissions on / .
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