On 11 Nov 1997, D. J. Bernstein wrote: > > the point was that his NFS argument against /var/spool/mail was > > irrelevant because home directories are often NFS mounted too > > There is no ``NFS argument against /var/spool/mail.''
except for your argument that /var/spool/mail is unsafe in an NFS environment. > The fundamental problem with /var/spool/mail is security. It's not easy > to handle a world-writable directory safely. it is not at all difficult to set the permissions on /var/spool/mail correctly, and it is trivial to make adduser (or whatever other user creation procedure you use) run "touch /var/spool/mail/USER ; chown USER.mail /var/spool/mail/user" > (Big ISPs have another problem with /var/spool/mail: on most systems, > reading a large directory takes a long time.) which is an argument against maildir, is it not? craig -- craig sanders networking consultant Available for casual or contract temporary autonomous zone system administration tasks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
