From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 19 12:31:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA07507 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 1996 12:31:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA07489 for ; Sun, 19 May 1996 12:31:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA27551; Sun, 19 May 1996 21:30:21 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA26463; Sun, 19 May 1996 21:30:20 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id UAA00369; Sun, 19 May 1996 20:55:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605191855.UAA00369@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 20:55:55 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <4nn8de$g2@bonkers.taronga.com> from Peter da Silva at "May 19, 96 08:41:02 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Peter da Silva wrote: > Charles Henrich wrote: > >Yes but think about it, .forwards WILL NOT WORK USUALLY EVER if sendmail doesnt > >read .forward's as root! > > This is a design flaw in sendmail. .forwards should really be maintained in > a centralized directory by a setuid program like mail is. You can have this if you want, sendmail is full of hooks where you can hang an additional alias file upon. The benefit of ~/.forward is that each user can simply handle his own forwarding. > >Most home directories are 700! > > I tend to set mine to 711. ...so .forward will work. > >This is a *bug* not a feature. > > Yes. No. It has been deliberately chosen to be this way (the UID is reset in order to read the .forward files). UTSL. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)