Fred Terry <pfterry(_at_)netopia(_dot_)com> writes:
At 12:14 PM -0500 10/7/99, Philip Guenther wrote:
You may find messages like the following:
Oct 7 12:13:00 solen.gac.edu sendmail[8776]: MAA08776: forward
/Net/solen/home/g/u/guenther/.forward: Group writable directory
Yep, I'm getting one of those lines for each .forward rule in the
Sendmail.cf file:
O ForwardPath=$z/.forward:$z/.forward.$w+$h:$z/.forward+$h:$z/.forward.$w
But I haven't been able to determine which directory it's
complaining about. The permissions are
-rw-r--r-- 1 pfterry staff 44 Oct 7 09:14 .forward
drwxr-xr-x 33 pfterry other 3072 Oct 7 09:13 ./
drwxr-xr-x 2 pfterry staff 512 Oct 6 22:29 .procmail/
The mail gets delivered to my mailbox without any filtering.
Looks like I'm running Sendmail 8.7 on a Solaris 2.7 Ultra.
At this point, I know the answer is going to become so
obvious that my forehead will have a large, red hand print.
Check each directory from your home directory to the root directory
and make sure none of them are group writable. For example, a stock
Solaris 7 system has /usr group-writable (!). If you have to change the
permissions on any 'system' directories (directories that were created
during the install of Solaris), then you should edit that directory's
entry in /var/sadm/install/contents to show the new value. Otherwise,
the next time you install a package or patch, the system with nicely,
'correct' the permissions to match the entry in that file.
Philip Guenther