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Subject: Re: /var/lock permissions
From: Olaf Kirch (okircaldera.de)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2000 - 00:23:41 CDT

On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 06:54:23AM +0400, Solar Designer wrote:
> Fix? I personally am going to add /var/lock/uucp and restrict
> permissions on /var/lock itself (to 755) for the mtree specification
> that I'm preparing (that's why I've spotted this). A workaround can
> be to set the sticky bit on /var/lock, like it's done in Slackware.

That's not optimal. User A's minicom/kermit/etc won't be able to remove
a stale lockfile created by User B's minicom/kermit/uucico...

Olaf 

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