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- From: messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk)
- Subject: Re: who to protect private mail ??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.000344.11328@netcom.com>
- Organization: Messina Software
- References: <930126714@jester.GUN.de>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:03:44 GMT
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- michael@jester.GUN.de (Michael Gerhards) writes:
-
- >Hello,
- >The subject says it all. An user could clear the mailbox of another user,
- >because the permissions in /usr/spool/mail are 622. I know, that this is
- >important, 'cause if I take the write-permission away, noone could send mail
- >to my account.
-
- Hm. I don't think so. On the Sun I use, the permissions on my mailbox
- are 600, and everything works just dandy. I haven't tried it on Coherent
- yet, will have to do that tonight.
-
- t.
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