Malcolm Kay wrote:
I am confused (or someone is).
On all the FreeBSD systems I have immediate access to the file
/etc/mail/aliases has the default permissions -rw-r--r--, in
other words is readable by anyone. On the other
hand /etc/mail/aliases.db is sometimes -rw-r----- and sometimes
-rw-r--r-- but since it is only an encoded version of aliases
and additional restrictions would seem useless.
I can imagine some might object to reason setting either of these
o+r, but this does seem to be the norm.
Perhaps someone else has other views. Or perhaps this is some
variation when using profix, qmail etc. in place of sendmail.
Malcolm
Postfix is the MTA, but the file itself is NFS shared between all the
mailservers, and furthermore is used as part of a script that expects
things to be "just so."
I inherited this setup, and don't dare start changing the permissions on
key files until I understand what every part of the equation expects to
see-- an example would be the user mailboxes, wherein the permissions
were set incorrectly causing Sendmail to choke (dontblamesendmail has
more on this for the curious).
--
Jay Chandler
Network Administrator, Chapman University
714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Today's Excuse: user to computer ratio too high.
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