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- From: lemson@fnbc.com (David Lemson)
- Subject: Re: re: Mail.app not reading /usr/spool/mail directory...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.213307.351@fnbc.com>
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- Organization: First National Bank Of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA
- References: <1992Jul24.133416.2867@bmw.mayo.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 21:33:07 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.133416.2867@bmw.mayo.edu> brunkhorst@mayo.edu (Geoff
- Brunkhorst) writes:
- > I ran into this last week after blindly believing COPS which
- > told me write access to that directory is considered a security risk
- > (It probably is, but...)
-
- It's not a risk as long as the sticky bit (that final 't' in the
- permissions on the listing given by ls -lg) is set. /tmp should be the
- same way. (mode 1777 for you octal fans)
- drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 1024 Jul 27 15:56 mail
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