Brett Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is the maildir in their home folder? Then that is all that
>matters.
Nope. The mode on the home directory matters, too.
>Set the numbers to whatever you like (777 if you really want
>to). Since the parent folder ($HOME) is readable only by the owner (if
>you haven't mangled the permissions), noone else will be able to read
>~user/maildir/.
All the world is not running whatever OS/distribution you happen to be
using, so it's not safe to assume that home directories aren't
publicly accessible. Even if every OS got this right, it'd still be
prudent to protect subdirectories in case the home dir mode gets
changed.
Only the user needs access to the maildir, so "chmod 700 ~/Maildir"
should do the trick.
-Dave
