On Mon, Feb 15, 1999 at 08:41:51AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 11:59:22PM +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> > | However I have one final little question (final - ha, ha!), what
> > | permissions does qmail require on users' home directories?
> >
> > You must be able to stat() the home dir without any special
> > privileges. This means all directories above the home must be
> > executably by anyone (well, you can get away with less, actually).
> > And the user must own his home directory and should have rwx
> > privileges (again, you can sometimes get away with a bit less). The
> > home directory must not be world writable, or (depending on how qmail
> > was configured during compilation) group writable.
This is not a correct advice, I think: just recompile qmail with changing
conf-patrn to 000, and you are in business.
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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis
