From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 15 18: 5: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from java.dpcsys.com (java.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4663B14E2A for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:05:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by java.dpcsys.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id SAA06982; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:02:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Shawn Ramsey Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail oddity In-Reply-To: <19990415155711.A26446@cpl.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > Since upgrading to sendmail-8.9.3, errors like these have been showing up in > the logfile : > > Apr 15 15:54:48 luke sendmail[27804]: PAA27803: forward > /disk4/home/sunrise/dalriada/.forward.luke: Group writable directory > > Apr 15 15:54:48 luke sendmail[27804]: PAA27803: forward > /disk4/home/sunrise/dalriada/.forward: Group writable directory Sendmail justs gets more and more paranoid about file permissions (this is a good thing :) Since the directory is group writable someone sharing your group could put a .forward file in your home dir and have it forward all your mail to them. I'd just make all the user's home directories mode 0700. Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message