From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 16 10:12: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D713715239 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 10:12:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA29038; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:11:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 12:11:58 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: daniel B Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail: /home/user forward problem Message-ID: <19991116121157.A28955@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from danielb@pacex.net on Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 09:02:48AM -0800 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Nov 16), daniel B said: > I am getting the following error from sendmail: > > Sendmail.... forward /home/user/.forward Group Writable Directory > > Well; the directory does not exist in the specified location i.e 'ls > -la' in /home/user shows no .forward file. > > Is sendmail complaining it does not exist? if not why is it > complaining about a group writable directory that does not exist? It's complaining that /home/user is group writeable, so anyone in that group can create a .forward file and redirect that user's mail. If you set up your system to give each user their own group (and no-one else is in that group), you can set a flag in your sendmail.cf that disables the group-write check. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message