At 06:51 PM 4/22/01 -0300, Daniel Provin wrote:
>hi
>
>i have a problem like, when i open my mail, e see a msg like:
>Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
A message "like" this or this message? In either case, it does not look
complete - logs normally indicate the name of the process that posted the
log entry.
>on the maillog file
>then i try to change the permissions of the /var/spool/mail dir to 1777
>but then it have permission to everyon write there
>is that right?
No (or at least not on my Debian systems). I have this directory set to the
Debian defaults, which are:
owner = root
group = mail
mode = 775 + sgid
The files *in* the directory are:
owner = uid of account
group = mail
mode = 660
The MTA I use (exim) then runs with mode 755 + suid.
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