Mail permissions (scary!)

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2 total messages Started by kevins Sun, 11 Oct 1992 20:53

#1431

Author: kevins
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 20:53

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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.

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Kevin Solie

kevins@ms.uky.edu
kevins@slow.inslab.uky.edu (NeXT Mail)

Re: Mail permissions (scary!)

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Author: Mike Matthews
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
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Mike Matthews, matthews@oberon.umd.edu (NeXTmail accepted)
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"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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