Steven Buehler wrote:
>>>I'm getting an interesting message in Pine:
>>>
>>>"Folder vulnerable - Directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777
>>>protection"
>>>
>>>Any ideas? I do have an imap/pop server running (v. 2002d of the
>>>Washington U. imapd) and from when this started appearing I assume it
>>>has something to do with that.
>>
>>Looks like a permission value to me (chmod 1777 blah), but I'm not quite
>>sure why you'd *want* /var/spool/mail to have those permissions. Maybe
>>it's warning you that it's world-readable?
>
>
> The current permissions:
> drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 72 Feb 10 17:59 mail/
>
> However, '1777' is not a valid permission (they are only supposed to be
> three digits, correct; owner, group, rest of world?), unless the '1' means
> 'directory'.
>
As I understand it, 1777 is valid, the 1 is the "sticky" flag. It
prevents a file from being deletable by someone other than the file
owner or directory owner. Otherwise, in a world-writeable directory,
someone else could delete your mail spool. Check man chmod to be sure,
I could be wrong.
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