Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles - hp internal release 1.2; site hp-pcd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hp-pcd!peter From: peter@hp-pcd.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: permissions on /usr/preserve Message-ID: <19500009@hp-pcd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 11:36:00 EST Article-I.D.: hp-pcd.19500009 Posted: Mon Jan 30 11:36:00 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 02:23:16 EST Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Corvallis, OR Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #N:hp-pcd:19500009:000:749 Nf-From: hp-pcd!peter Jan 30 08:36:00 1984 According to Berkeley documentation, HIER(7), /usr/preserve is the directory where editor temporaries are preserved after crashes or hangups. As distributed on 4.1, it comes with "drwxr-xr-x root" permissions. A question has come up if this shouldn't really be writable to everyone. The directory certainly looks harmless enough. Does anyone know of a reason why it shouldn't be opened up for all accesses? Are there any security holes created by doing so? Alternatively, should it work as it stands? We have been having some problems with EMACS after stopping and resuming that point to this directory. Thanks for any information, Peter Robinson Hewlett-Packard PCD Corvallis, OR {ucbvax!hplabs,harpo,ogcvax}!hp-pcd!peter