[ale] Need help with sendmail

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Oct 25 08:54:35 EDT 2012


And it appeared that the system sees a .forward file which should not
exist according to Chuck.

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Phil Turmel <philip at turmel.org> wrote:
> On 10/24/2012 11:28 PM, Wolf Halton wrote:
>> .forward should be chmodded to 600.
>
> The error wasn't about .forward itself...  as Chuck said, they don't
> have them.  The error was that
> /mnt/nas-sgd2/home/chuck.payne
> is world-writable.  That means any unprivileged process could create any
> .forward file there it wanted.
>
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