From: CRDGW2::CRDGW2::MRGATE::"SMTP::DECWRL.DEC.COM::SIMPACT!JEH" 4-AUG-1989 21:25 To: MRGATE::"ARISIA::EVERHART" Subj: Problems with mailer and LIB$RENAME under V5 Received: from decwrl.dec.com by DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU; Fri, 4 Aug 89 21:11 EDT Received: by decwrl.dec.com (5.54.5/4.7.34) id AA15564; Fri, 4 Aug 89 18:10:51 PDT Received: by decwrl.dec.com (5.54.5/4.7.34) for vmsnet@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu; id AA15564; Fri, 4 Aug 89 18:10:51 PDT Received: by simpact.UUCP (DECUS UUCP w/Smail); Fri, 4 Aug 89 18:09:16 PDT Date: Fri, 4 Aug 89 18:09:16 PDT From: Jamie Hanrahan Subject: Problems with mailer and LIB$RENAME under V5 To: vmsnet@DRYCAS.CLUB.CC.CMU.EDU Message-Id: <8908050110.AA15564@decwrl.dec.com> (Howard Airhart has problems with users who set default protection to S:RE, after which uucp_mailshr can't rename the files it creates in UUCP_SPOOL:). The right answer to this is not to modify the call to LIB$RENAME but rather to arrange things so that the files are always created with the appropriate protection mask. This can be done in the source code to uucp_mailshr, but it can also be accomplished by putting a default protection ACL on the spool directory. Here is how Tom Allebrandi has his spool directory set up: Directory DSKB:[UUCP] SPOOL.DIR;1 UUCP_ADMIN (RWED,RWED,E,E) (DEFAULT_PROTECTION,SYSTEM:RWED,OWNER:RWED,GROUP:E,WORLD:E) (IDENTIFIER=[UUCP_USER],OPTIONS=DEFAULT,ACCESS=READ+WRITE+EXECUTE+DELETE+CONTROL) (IDENTIFIER=[UUCP_USER],ACCESS=READ+WRITE+EXECUTE+DELETE+CONTROL) (IDENTIFIER=UUCP_ADMIN,OPTIONS=DEFAULT,ACCESS=READ+WRITE+EXECUTE+DELETE+CONTROL) (IDENTIFIER=UUCP_ADMIN,ACCESS=READ+WRITE+EXECUTE+DELETE+CONTROL) Total of 1 file. Note that UUCP_USER maps to a UIC (change this to whatever identifier you used for your uucp accounts), while UUCP_ADMIN is a general identifier that can be granted to whoever needs to muck around in the spool directory. You can get lots more cautious with directory protections and still have things work; this isn't intended to be a "maximum security" setup. --- Jamie Hanrahan jeh@simpact.com