[Info-vax] File protection for: TCPIP$SMTP_LOCAL_ALIASES.TXT

[Joseph Huber]

JF Mezei wrote:

> Got a strange message trying to send an email an email via smtp% (since
> imap clients have degraded to unusable state).  Can anyone check their
> equivalent file and tell me what the protection should be ?
> 
> 
>> %%%%%%%%%%%  OPCOM  13-JAN-2009 03:24:07.91  %%%%%%%%%%%
>> Message from user AUDIT$SERVER on CHAIN
>> Security alarm (SECURITY) on CHAIN, system id: 1035
>> Auditable event:          Object access
>> Event information:        file access request (IO$_ACCESS or IO$_CREATE)
>> Event time:               13-JAN-2009 03:24:07.90
>> PID:                      202056B5
>> Process name:             _FTA20:
>> Username:                 JFMEZEI
>> Process owner:            [VAXINATION,JFMEZEI]
>> Terminal name:            FTA20:
>> Image name:              
>> $11$DQA0:[SYS0.SYSCOMMON.][SYSEXE]DECW$MAIL.EXE;1
>> Object class name:        FILE
>> Object owner:             [TCPIP$AUX,TCPIP$SMTP]
>> Object protection:        SYSTEM:RWED, OWNER:RWED, GROUP:RE, WORLD:
>> File name:               
>> _$11$DQA0:[SYS0.TCPIP$SMTP]TCPIP$SMTP_LOCAL_ALIASES.TXT;6
>> File ID:                  (47675,18,0)
>> Access requested:         READ
>> Posix UID:                -2
>> Posix GID:                -2 (%XFFFFFFFE)
>> Sequence key:             0C0F0383
>> Status:                   %SYSTEM-F-NOPRIV, insufficient privilege or
>> object pro tection violation
>>                                                                                 
> 
> 
> This happens on both DECW$MAIL and MAIL.EXE
> 
> SHould I make that file W:RE or is this a sign that some shareable image
> has not been installed or some other issue ?

In my system it has w:R , and why should it be protected against world
access ? it's just a list of nodes considered local to the system for
 SMTP.

mail.exe is installed with privileges, decw$mail without.

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Joseph Huber, http://www.huber-joseph.de