Where is root mail going?
oldman
talbotscott at cox.net
Mon Mar 12 16:00:58 UTC 2007
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Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 23:56 -0800, oldman wrote:
>> It complained on my system too, but told me that the /var/spool and
>> var/spool/mail directories needed to be chmodded to 01777. After that
>> it worked as advertised.
>
> It's normally *not* a good idea to let anyone be able to write to those
> directories.
>
Obviously then, you should chmod to 01771 then (assuming you trust
someone you've made a part of the root group, or maybe 01751 etc.)
Scott
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