Bug 10223 - .forward and RedHat's single-user groups
Summary: .forward and RedHat's single-user groups
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sendmail
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-03-17 16:22 UTC by Scott Delinger
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-05-19 10:14:13 UTC
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Description Scott Delinger 2000-03-17 16:22:51 UTC 
.forward files do not work with the default sendmail installation AND
RedHat's single-user groups, if the home directory is set to a reasonable
drwxrwxr-x.

Sendmail complains:

Mar 17 00:00:01 hobbes sendmail[30210]:  JAA30209: forward
/home/foo/.forward: Group writable directory

I don't think it should be necessary to make the home directories
drwxr-xr-x to make this work. Permission settings of 755 are illogical
given RedHat's desire for single-user groups as the default.
Comment 1 Florian La Roche 2000-05-19 10:14:59 UTC 
home dirs are not created with 0775 by default and I think it is good
to ship sendmail with this extra security check, so I'll not change anything
for the default setup.
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