ORIGINAL QUERY:
>Configuration:
> Sparc 10/41
> Solaris 2.1
>When mail arrives in a few mailboxes, not all, the group ownership of
>the mailbox changes from mail to the group of the mailbox owner. Since
>permissions are 660, this allows anyone in the owner's group to read
>his mail--not always a good idea.
Thanks to:
From: kevin@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
From: "LDC - Luis E. Mun~oz" <lem@usb.ve>
From: kmah@DCS-Systems.COM (Kevin Mah)
From: daver!sun!genisco.gtc.com!dav@relay2.UU.NET (David L. Markowitz)
Correct answer is a combo of two bits:
There's a line in the sendmail.cf file that probably reads
OF0640
I would suggest you to change this to
OF0600
This line controls the mode of the mailbox files...
and
At least under Solaris 1, the mail directory should be:
drwxrwsrwt 3 root daemon 1024 Oct 4 09:42 /spool/mail
Steps I took:
1) chmod 600 /var/mail/* (sendmail.cf was already correct)
2) chmod g+s /var/mail/. (since my /var/mail is a symlink)
S. Cowles
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