Making /var/mail mode 1777 (was Re: Installing sendmail SUID installworld suggestion)

[Danny Braniss]

> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:35:45AM +0100 I heard the voice of
> Oliver Fromme, and lo! it spake thus:
> > 
> > What's the best way to prevent that?  I tried editing the
> > appropriate mtree file, but that feels like a hack rather
> > than a clean solution.
> 
> Well, I did it by the hack of stuffing a 'chmod 1777' in rc.local...
> 
in /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist, change
...
    mail            gname=mail mode=0775
to
    mail            gname=mail mode=1777

see also /etc/rc.d/var

danny