From: ajt@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis) Subject: Re: Elm's permissions Date: 29 Aug 1992 23:35:31 GMT
Muhep Guest account (guest@chopin.Physics.McGill.CA) wrote:
: [...]
: [smail seems to give read permissions to the world when creating a
: mailbox, so when you create a new account you should touch the mailbox and
: chmod it to 600 in the adduser script (like mine does!)]
check the umask of the user account: smail will set 600 if the umask is
22. (nb. this umask would normally set permisions 644 on a plain file).
Tony.