On a sililar subject. I have a few users who want to lock down their
home directories to 700. Is there a way that exim can check for a
.forward file as the user so that it can get past this?
Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Simon King wrote:
>
> > 1998-11-06 15:57:16 0zboGC-0004y2-00 == test@??? D=userforward
> > defer (-11)
> > : <test@???> - bad mode (100664) for /home/test/.forward
> > (userforward director)
>
> Look at the value of the modemask option in the forwardfile director.
>
> > I've looked through the documentation and FAQs but can't see anything to
> > suggest that exim has to do anything other than read the .forward file.
>
> It checks for mode bits that shouldn't be set, by default 022.
>
>
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