Peter Weilbacher wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:05:10 +0200, Travis Crump wrote:
> 
> 
>>The mail spool files themselves are still 0660 and owned by the
>>user...
> 
> 
> OK, so nobody can read mail of somebody else. But if the dir is world
> writable everybody can still *delete* the mails of all other users...

pretzalz@Pretzalz:/var/mail$ ls
pretzalz  yoster
pretzalz@Pretzalz:/var/mail$ rm yoster
rm: remove write-protected file `yoster'? y
rm: cannot unlink `yoster': Operation not permitted
pretzalz@Pretzalz:/var/mail$ ls
pretzalz  yoster
pretzalz@Pretzalz:/var/mail$ echo test > yoster
bash: yoster: Permission denied
pretzalz@Pretzalz:/var/mail$ ls -ld .
drwxrwxrwt    2 root     mail         4096 Jul 30 18:58 .

I must be missing something here....


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