On Tuesday 29 Jan 2013 10:19:16 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 06:37:47 +0000 > > Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I got this message when net-mail/mailbase-1.1 was emerged: > > > > * Messages for package net-mail/mailbase-1.1: > > * Your //var/spool/mail/ directory permissions differ from > > * those which mailbase wants to set it to (03775). > > * If you did not change them on purpose, consider running: > > * > > * chown root:mail //var/spool/mail/ > > * chmod 03775 //var/spool/mail/ > > > > Running this chmod changed access rights from: > > drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Jan 28 19:57 mail > > > > to a sticky-fied: > > drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 4096 Jan 28 19:57 mail > > > > Any idea why are the sticky bits for group and others required? > > sticky for group so that all sub-dirs and files in them are owned by > the mail group. Without it, they would be owned by the user running > "mailx" and the mail system can no longer manager them. > > sticky for others is so that you can't delete my mail but you can still > create your own mail spool files. Identical logic to /tmp (assuming > that you are in the mail group)
Thanks Alan, it makes sense now. No one other than mail are in the mail group in this box (my laptop): $ less /etc/group | grep mail mail:x:12:mail I have rkhunter and some cron jobs using ssmtp to email me log info, but they have been running as root. That's why I hadn't experienced a problem with the previous access rights. I wonder why this was picked up in the 1.1 version and not previously - perhaps a test was added on purpose in the ebuild. -- Regards, Mick
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