Rejo Zenger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 04 Nov 1999:
> >-rw-rw---- 1 paul mail 422603 Oct 23 12:16 /var/spool/mail/paul
> -----^^------------------^^^^
>
> Eeeuh... i'm not sure, but those persissions don't look that good at
> all. Now any user in the group mail could read and write to this
> mailbox and i guess only user paul is supposed do so.
That's a normal setup. mail is not a user group. Any users should
not belong to that group normally, only setgid programs which then get
access to read/write files in the mail spool dir. Of course, YMMV, but
there's nothing unusual about those permissions themselves.
Mikko
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