On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 01:00:53 +0200, Travis Crump wrote:
> Peter Weilbacher wrote:
>> 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 -ld . drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail
> 4096 Jul 30 18:58 .
>
> I must be missing something here....
That's the 't' mode, without it you can remove everything. I have
never seen a mail dir setup with 't' and I never found a good
explanation for it, but at least it seems to work like that.
--
Greetings,
Peter.
