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- From: reddyp@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Pardhasaradhi A. Reddy)
- Subject: Re: Funny mail !
- Message-ID: <C0HqIE.Inn@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- Organization: University of Cincinnati
- References: <1idklpINNl27@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1993Jan7.092343.20412@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:47:02 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.092343.20412@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> zzsb@kursix.rrzn.uni-hannover.de (Wolfgang Sander-Beuermann) writes:
- >
- >>Hello,
- >
- >>I went to /usr/spool/mail and created a file with one of my
- >>friends names (user-id).
- >
- >[ ... lines deleted ... ]
- >
- >I would call this an administration fault of your machine: the spool
- >directory of mail shouldn't be world writable; you should report it
- >to your system manager.
- >
-
- This is not really a problem because, when one adds a user, a
- mail box is created with username in the /usr/spool/mail
- directory always.(assuming, the sys admin didn't forget to
- create a mailbox while adding the account.). And the umask is set
- to allow permissions to read and write only to the owner. In such a
- case, no other user other than the owner can write or read the mail box. once, a mialbox has been created for a user with appropriate
- permissions, it is not possible for any body else to create a
- mailbox with diiferent permissions for the same user. :-)
-
- regards
- Pardha.
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