From: Ed Carp (erc@unislc.uucp)
Date: 10/15/92


From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: Any mail or fakemail available for linux ?
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:14:10 GMT

Steve M. Robbins (steve@Nyongwa.CAM.ORG) wrote:

: As I recall, the important things were:
: - elm is a regular program NOT setgid
: - /usr/spool/mail has permissions 1777 (global read/write with the sticky bit)
: - the mailboxes in /usr/spool/mail have permissions 600 (rw for owner only)

Excuse me? Isn't this a security hole to have a directory world writeable?
I thought the sticky bit was just for deletion of files.

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