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RE: [cobalt-users] Sendmail world - writeable directory
- Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Sendmail world - writeable directory
- From: "Dan Kriwitsky" <webhosting@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Jan 25 03:21:09 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
> what do you make of this???
>
> Jan 23 23:57:24 fsn1 sendmail[25929]: XAA25927: forward
> /var/spool/mail/.forward.fsn1: World writable directory
> Jan 23 23:57:24 fsn1 sendmail[25929]: XAA25927: forward
> /var/spool/mail/.forward: World writable
> directory
> Jan 23 23:57:24 fsn1 sendmail[25929]: XAA25927: XAA25929: DSN: Host
> unknown (Name server: cattiesinc.com: host not found)
>
IIRC, the world writable is a security issue. Sendmail doesn't like
directories to be world writable for security purposes.
The user mail on my RaQ2 is CHMOD 660
I remember a discussion about that a while ago. Should be in the archives.
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Dan Kriwitsky