On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 05:08:49PM -0500, Larry Grover wrote:
| Starting this morning, I'm getting dozens of entries like this in my maillog:
|
| Nov 8 13:01:04 muaq165 sendmail[3941]: NAA03940: forward
|/home/grover/.forward.muaq165: Group writable directory
| Nov 8 13:01:04 muaq165 sendmail[3941]: NAA03940: forward /home/grover/.forward:
|Group writable directory
|
| I get these messages at irregular intervals of between about 1-15 mins.
| Can anyone tell me what these messages mean?
I would guess you've recently adjust some permissions.
They are a security warning, saying that sendmail is not prepared to
trust the .forward in your home dir because the dir is group writable,
and therefore someone else (the other members of that group) could have
moved your .forward aside and inserted one of their own to hack you.
Are you still getting email? (If not, of course, then _this_ email will
not help.)
| I don't have a ".forward" or a ".forward.muaq165" in my home directory on this
machine (muaq165). I run fetchmail on this machine (to grab mail from a MS Exc
hange server) and procmail, and sendmail.
No matter. I suggest you remove group write from your homedir (this is
generally a good idea anyway - allow group access to some subdirs for
special purposes by all means, but _not_ your homedir where some many
of your personal control files live).
| I don't know if this helps, but here's the relevant section of my ipchains:
These messages have nothing to do with ipchains.
Cheers,
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