Re: [EXIM] 1.92 special spool permissions?

On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Sherwood Botsford wrote:

> [root@rondo exim]# ls -lR /var/spool/exim
> total 4
> drwxrwxrwx

          ~

A world writable spool folder? Is that wise? Is world read/execute
wise, for that matter?

> 2 root     root         1024 Jul 14 14:15 db

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And why is it owned by root? I'd suggest making it owned by exim, if
that's who you run exim as, and mode 700.

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Ben Smithurst <ben@???> <http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/>


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