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Re: proxy-defpager for all users?


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: Re: proxy-defpager for all users?
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 00:15:20 +0100
User-agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)

Richard Braun, le mar. 06 nov. 2018 11:52:45 +0100, a ecrit:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 11:02:47PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > proxy-defpager is typically set on /servers/default-pager, but its
> > permissions are by default 644, which makes it unusable by normal users,
> > it'd need to be 755 (see the x check in the defpager source).
> > 
> > Apart from allowing users to eat memory, which they currently already
> > can do anyway, is there any downside to making this 755 so people can
> > mount their own tmpfs?
> 
> I personally wondered why it wasn't the case from the start.

Most probably because we didn't realize we had to make it +x to make it
usable by users.

Samuel



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