Mailbox vulnerable?
Hongwei Li
hongwei at morpheus.wustl.edu
Mon Jun 28 13:57:06 UTC 2004
Hi,
We have a fc1 box. We have he permissions setting as:
# ls -ld /var/spool/mail
drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 4096 Jun 28 08:43 /var/spool/mail
# ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 11 root root 24576 Jun 28 08:43 /tmp
The LogWatch always shows the warning:
Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 protection
When a regular user (except root) opens pine to read mails, he also sees
this message at the very beninning for about 1 to 2 seconds. As I
understand, the permission drwxrwxr-x is correct. What is wrong? Do I
need to change the permission on the mail directory? if yes, change it to
what?
Thanks!
Hongwei
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