Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:01:13 +0300 From: "Eugene M. Minkovskii" <emin@mccme.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: J65nko BSD <j65nko@gmail.com> Subject: Re: sendmail and mbox permissions Message-ID: <20050106090113.GB20461@mccme.ru> In-Reply-To: <19861fba0501051514873eea3@mail.gmail.com> References: <20050105202329.GA30133@mccme.ru> <19861fba0501051514873eea3@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:14:05AM +0100, J65nko BSD wrote: " On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 23:23:29 +0300, Eugene M. Minkovskii <emin@mccme.ru> wrote: " > Hi. " > " > I use FreeBSD 5.3 and sendmail. When root rechieve the mail, " > mailbox's (/var/mail/root) permission bits has been setted to " > 600. Who and how it does? Can I change this behavior? " > " > -- " For security reasons, the "root" account should not receice any mail. " One of sendmail's alternatives "qmail" will even NEVER send any mail " to the root account. " " Enter an alias for root in "/etc/mail/aliases" and run the "newaliases" command. Yes, I know this reasons, but I want to know what happens. Who change permissions on /var/mail/root. Why I see it in FreeBSD 5.3 and don't see in FreeBSD 5.2.1? What do you mean "don't rechive any mail?" mach daemond, mail to root they reports and I want easy way to reading it. -- Sensory yours, Eugene Minkovskii Сенсорно ваш, Евгений Миньковский
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