Re: [cobalt-users] Re: var/spool/mail/.forward: World writable directory

["Gerald Waugh" <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>]

: <flash22@xxxxxxx>  wrote On: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 6:44
PM

>
> There was a message a while ago, but now i got one in the
logs..;)
>
> After a bit of poking around, i have come to the
conclusion this
> is a side effect of an odd spam forwarding hack involving
> the autoresponder code...
>
> forward /var/spool/mail/.forward: World writable directory
>
> Seems to be a result of sendmail trying to deliver to user
'mail' which
> has no home directory, this causing mail to try to look in
the spool
> directory, which is, in fact world writable to sendmail...
>
> I am able to reproduce the error , tho not exactly the
same results
>  the spam got...further elucidation welcome here...
>
No answer, but I just had a couple in my logs
Apr 11 09:36:26 fsn1 sendmail[23141]: JAA23141: forward
/var/spool/mail/.forward.fsn1: World writable directory
Apr 11 09:36:26 fsn1 sendmail[23141]: JAA23141: forward
/var/spool/mail/.forward: World writable directory
Is it BAD?
Gerald