Re: Mail permissions (scary!)

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From: Thomas Funke
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:17

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In article <1992Oct12.10250.14181@ms.uky.edu> kevins@slow.inslab.uky.edu   
writes:
> 
> 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?
> 

No, but NeXT did ! Change the permissions in /usr/template/user/Mailboxes
and all new users will have the correct values !

A really bad security leck !

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