fc1 email does not work?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 24.06.2004 schrieb Hongwei Li um 20:32:

[ reordered top-posting ]

> > Check that you did not accidentally change the /tmp folder permissions.
> > They must look this way:
> >
> > $ ls -ld /tmp/
> > drwxrwxrwt  20 root root 8232 24. Jun 19:51 /tmp/
> >
> > And the mail spool directory this:
> >
> > $ ls -ld /var/spool/mail/
> > drwxrwxr-x  3 root mail 4096 24. Jun 18:24 /var/spool/mail/
> >
> >> Hongwei Li
> >
> > Alexander

> I just changed the mode of /tmp from drwxrwxr-x to drwxrwxrwx, and it
is working now.  The /var/spoll/mail has drwxrwxr-x

That is wrong! See above. The permissions of /tmp must be drwxrwxrwt and
not drwxrwxrwx! That is important for many security reasons.

> I am surprised that the default setting of fc1 on /tmp is wrong.  I
> created the partition /tmp during the installation, and never changed it
> after then.

No, the default permissions are correct on FC1. You changed it to a
wrong state!

> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Hongwei

Alexander


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