Bug 20353 - regen sendmail.cf changes permissions on /var/spool/mail
Summary: regen sendmail.cf changes permissions on /var/spool/mail
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: linuxconf
Version: 6.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Dale Lovelace
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-11-05 06:46 UTC by FRussell
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-11-05 06:46:28 UTC
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Description FRussell 2000-11-05 06:46:26 UTC 
If Linuxconf is used to make any changes to sendmail configuration 
requiring regeneration of sendmail.cf file, permissions on /var/spool/mail 
are changed.

A warning is produced in /var/log/maillog stating /var/spool/mail is 
vulnerable and must have permissions 1777.

chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail fixes the permissions but if Linuxconf is used 
again, the permissions revert.
Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2000-11-06 19:44:38 UTC 
Bogus permission changes are fixed in the Raw Hide versions of the package.
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