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Re: [cobalt-users] Re: email forwarding
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Re: email forwarding
- From: Gerald Waugh <gerald@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Dec 14 16:59:10 2001
- Organization: Front Street Networks LLC
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Friday 14 December 2001 14:22, SM wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At 16:21 14-12-2001 -0000, Ian McCabe wrote:
> >Does it really matter about providing 777 permissions on files which are
> >effectively outside of the public_html area, I always thought that it did
>
> The 777 permissions allows other users on the system to modify the file(s).
> If I am another user on your box, I could modify your .forward to forward
> your emails to my account.
I don't think you could, if the file was in a directory that you did not have
rights too.
Not that I am condoning leaving files around with 777 rights.
--
-Gerald