> Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 1777 allows any user to make files in /var/spool/mail. Fairly soon
> > on a student machine you will find /var/spool/mail/.mp3 and the like
> > mysteriously appearing.
>
> That's what quotas are for.
And named pipes that are other peoples mailboxes a
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1777 allows any user to make files in /var/spool/mail. Fairly soon
> on a student machine you will find /var/spool/mail/.mp3 and the like
> mysteriously appearing.
That's what quotas are for.
--
Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors!
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> I recently installed nail (an open-source mime-compliant version of mail).
> It expects /var/spool/mail to have 1777 permissions to allow
> a dot-lock to be implemented. It seems that RedHat has disabled
> dot-locking in mailx. Questions:
1777 allows any user to make files in /var/spool/mail
