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From: diamant@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM (John Diamant)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: problems with new users' mail file creation
Message-ID: <1410006@hpfclp.SDE.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Jul 88 04:35:29 GMT
References: <876@garth.UUCP>
Organization: HP SDE, Fort Collins, CO
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> this is a bug in the Ultrix-sendmail. You can fix it by setting the mode
> of '/usr/spool/mail' to 1777 (don't forget the sticky bit, or everyone
> can remove your mailbox!). 

Would you care to explain that item about the sticky bit?  I always that the
sticky bit was merely an efficiency hack.  Are you saying that it actually
changes the security of the running program?  How?


John Diamant
Software Development Environments
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