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Article #1433Re: Mail permissions (scary!)
From: kevins
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 01:02
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 01:02
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Mike Matthews writes -> 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. -> Hmmm... Most of the accounts on the machines I've seen have a 755 permission on the ~/Mailboxes dir. I created a test user with UserManager.app and its Mailboxes dir also had 755 permissions. Have I done something wrong? -- Kevin Solie kevins@ms.uky.edu kevins@slow.inslab.uky.edu (NeXT Mail)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!ukma!news From: kevins@slow.inslab.uky.edu Subject: Re: Mail permissions (scary!) References: <16039@umd5.umd.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: mode.inslab.uky.edu Message-ID: <1992Oct12.10250.14181@ms.uky.edu> Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 01:02:50 GMT Lines: 26