Re: Security Question with temp files...

[Kenneth Porter]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 16:45:14 -0400 (EDT), A. M. Salim wrote:

>Please note that this setting will make sendmail very unhappy.  Sendmail
>does not like any dir to be group or world writeable.  You will need to
>play with both ownership and group to keep both sendmail and Qpopper
>happy.  Or you will need to "force" sendmail to be happy with these
>settings (not advised and painful to do it).

Note that for Red Hat, /var/spool/mail is 775, owner root.mail.
Mailboxes are 660, owner user.mail (where "user" is replaced by the
specific user of that mailbox). The directory lacks the sticky bit.

Ken
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