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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: World-readable mailbox?
- Message-ID: <BzA5KA.17p@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Keywords: security, elm 2.4 PL13, sgid, UNIX SysV.2
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <Byr0p0.nr@chinet.chi.il.us> <Bz5vpy.656@hico2.westmark.com> <Bz82MJ.HBH@nic.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:57:45 GMT
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- In article <Bz82MJ.HBH@nic.umass.edu> jeff@titan.ucc.umass.edu (DarkShadow) writes:
- >At UMass, we had a public mailbox on a Cyber running NOS/VE (ancient
- >system) which was privately owned and located in a single account.
- >This machine is going down soon, so the public mailbox was moved to an
- >Ultrix machine. The way she sets it up is by putting world-readable
- >permissions on the elm folder file and write only for herself: chmod
- >u+x and a+r on the mail folder. Then, we can read it by using the -f
- >flag for elm. We set up an alias in our .cshrc file that looks
- >something like this:
- > alias cl "elm -f ~account/Mail/.CL"
-
- Close, but I want the public copy to be the real mailbox for a dummy
- user so that the mail transport will deliver directly to it, and
- I'd like the usual locking and notification of new messages to happen
- also. I could see other uses for the technique above, but in this
- case I want an archive of everything sent to an alias to automatically
- accumulate in the mailbox.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-