Is there a reason why /var/spool/mail permissions are not 01777?
As things stand (0775), Netscape's newsreader claims that it can't
download articles without a separate movemail program (which I assume
needs to be setuid root). My Soalris machine has /var/mail with
permissions 01777.
Thanks
On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
Is there a reason why /var/spool/mail permissions are not 01777?
Because they don't need to be. The 775 permissions allow users to read
and write their own mail and for members of the 'mail' group to do the
same. Making the permissions 1777
