Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 20:55:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail? Message-ID: <199605191855.UAA00369@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <4nn8de$g2@bonkers.taronga.com> from Peter da Silva at "May 19, 96 08:41:02 am"
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As Peter da Silva wrote: > Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> wrote: > >Yes but think about it, .forwards WILL NOT WORK USUALLY EVER if sendmail doesnt > >read .forward's as root! > > This is a design flaw in sendmail. .forwards should really be maintained in > a centralized directory by a setuid program like mail is. You can have this if you want, sendmail is full of hooks where you can hang an additional alias file upon. The benefit of ~/.forward is that each user can simply handle his own forwarding. > >Most home directories are 700! > > I tend to set mine to 711. ...so .forward will work. > >This is a *bug* not a feature. > > Yes. No. It has been deliberately chosen to be this way (the UID is reset in order to read the .forward files). UTSL. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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