Re: [cobalt-users] "World writable directory" error

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> something wrong there - specifically that:
> 
> /home/sites/site3/users/damski/.forward.www
> 
> Is world writable. This could be the work of a clueless user
> who simply created a hidden directory/file named: .forward.www or it
> could be something worse. Knowing Sendmail as I do, I can't see
> Sendmail lying to you about this.

> I'd recomend you beg, borrow or steal a fresh ls off a clean fresh

> /home/sites/site3/users/damski/./ls -al

> and check things out again.


hey thanks for this, you spooked me so much that i worked out
what it was all about, after doing the ls upload, etc.

the directory site3 was world-writeable.  this was the problem.
there was no .forward.www file, but investigation via google
revealed that sendmail takes on the role of warning you if a
directory on the way to the .forward file is world-writeable.

apparently there is a sendmail.cf option "DontBlameSendmail"
which when set ignores this.


thanks again!


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chris paul