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- From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
- Subject: Re: Funny mail !
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.174812.6883@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: Sequoia Peripherals, Inc.
- References: <1idklpINNl27@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1993Jan7.092343.20412@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> <C0HqIE.Inn@ucunix.san.uc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 17:48:12 GMT
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- In article <C0HqIE.Inn@ucunix.san.uc.edu> reddyp@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Pardhasaradhi A. Reddy) writes:
- >
- > 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. :-)
-
- It is a problem. On many systems, when a user deletes the last
- piece of mail in his mailbox, the mail program unlinks the user's
- entry in /usr/spool/mail. This, of course, is a disastrous
- misfeature of these mail programs, but unfortunately, that is
- how mail works on these systems. /usr/spool/mail should not be
- world writeable.
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