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Date:      Mon, 22 Apr 1996 07:44:27 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich)
Subject:   Re: .forward and sendmail?
Message-ID:  <199604220544.HAA18025@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199604220320.XAA08263@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Apr 21, 96 11:20:11 pm

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As Charles Henrich wrote:

> Explain to me how exactly sendmail is supposed to read .forward's
> out of peoples directories, when it apparently runs as daemon?  I
> have had zero luck with this unless the directories are world read,
> as well as the .forward, this is unusual!  What am I missing here?

I think it must be readable by `daemon' (and i would even call this a
security feature, as opposed to reading the file with root
privileges).  Of course, your directory doesn't need to be readable by
`daemon', it's sufficient if it is _search_able by him (e.g..,
drwxr-x--x).

-- 
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. ;-)



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