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Re: Renamed bogus "/var/mail/caseym" into "/var/mail/BOGUS.caseym.j8UB"

2006-06-02 19:37:37
On 30 May 2006, at 22:12 , Paul Matthews wrote:

2) You didn't show the permissions for /var/spool/mail/ itself

[root(_at_)mail samba]# ls /var/spool/ -lsa
24 drwxrwxrwx   3 root    mail      20480 May 31 14:09 mail

That's not good.  You should not have global write permissions on the  
mail.

the mail spool should be either owned by root with mail as the group  
and permissions of drwxrwxr-x, or it should be owned by mail with the  
sticky bit set (drwxrwxr-t)

(man chmod)


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