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Article #1426Re: Mail permissions (scary!)
From: Mike Matthews
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 21:21
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 21:21
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In article <1992Oct11.205350.15023@ms.uky.edu> kevins@slow.inslab.uky.edu writes: >Is it just me or is the fact that the 755 default permissions (readable by >all) for everything in a users Mailboxes dir a very scary notion. Depends on what the user's ~/Mailboxes dir is set to. On every system I've seen it defaults to 700 so it really doesn't matter *what* the permissions are on everything inside it. I used to be concerned about 'what if someone got past the 700' but concluded if they got past that then there isn't much you can do to stop them anyway. >Kevin Solie ------ Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted) ------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!umd5!oberon.umd.edu!matthews From: matthews@oberon.umd.edu (Mike Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: Mail permissions (scary!) Message-ID: <16039@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 11 Oct 92 21:21:05 GMT References: <1992Oct11.205350.15023@ms.uky.edu> Sender: news@umd5.umd.edu Organization: /etc/organization Lines: 22