config file and users directory

[Tom Hughes]

In message <i18rnSAC6zu2EwmV at worsdall.demon.co.uk>
          Mark Worsdall <acorn at worsdall.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article <997357cf48.tom at compton.compton.nu>, Tom Hughes
> <tom at compton.nu> writes
>
> >You should probably know that it is my intention to switch to using
> >!NewsDir.Users instead of !RemoteNB.Users at some point soon. The main
> >reason things are the way they are is that it made it easier for in the
> >days before I moved over to RemoteNB as my main mail/news backend.
>
> I take it !NewsDir.Users will have to have RW access when in use by a
> user or can it work as just R access?

It needs to be RW because Messenger will want to use it to save
details of which messages have been read and suchlike. RemoteNB
doesn't actually use it much itself - the only thing it puts in
there is the results of any searches a user has done.

> >Note that one of those variables (the config one I think) doesn't
> >actually work at the moment... I will probably change it to point
> >to the directory containing the files so that the config files can
> >be placed on a readonly filesystem to prevent unauthorised changes.
>
> This is good except that means I will have to have to central areas, one
> RW for !NewsDir and 1 R only for config or have I misunderstood?

That's about it, yes.

Tom

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