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  2. From: ajt@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  4. Subject: Re: Elm's permissions
  5. Message-ID: <17p1k3INNk1e@frigate.doc.ic.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 29 Aug 92 23:35:31 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug26.224141.6669@cs.mcgill.ca>
  8. Reply-To: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk
  9. Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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  14. Muhep Guest account (guest@chopin.Physics.McGill.CA) wrote:
  15. : [...]
  16. : [smail seems to give read permissions to the world when creating a  
  17. : mailbox, so when you create a new account you should touch the mailbox and  
  18. : chmod it to 600 in the adduser script (like mine does!)]
  19.  
  20. check the umask of the user account: smail will set 600 if the umask is
  21. 22. (nb. this umask would normally set permisions 644 on a plain file).
  22.  
  23.     Tony.
  24.  
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  26. Dr. A.J.Travis,                       |  Tony Travis
  27. Rowett Research Institute,            |  JANET: <ajt@uk.ac.sari.rri>
  28. Greenburn Road, Bucksburn,            |  other: <ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk>
  29. Aberdeen, AB2 9SB. UK.                |  phone: 0224-712751
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