Re: strange (to me) syslog entry

[Robert Threet <rthreet@yahoo.com>]

Hmmm... the fact that this just showed up, in UUCP is
rather creepy...

--- Danny Sauer <sauer@cloudmaster.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 06:24:26AM -0700, Robert
> Threet wrote:
> > Does anybody know what this means?
> > 
> > Apr 20 04:00:40 system sendmail[22250]: EAA22250:
> > forward
> /var/spool/uucppublic/.forward.systemname+:
> > Group writable directory
> 
> My guess: sendmail checks a user's home directory to
> see if there's a .forward
> in there before delivering to that user's mailbox. 
> When it finds that the
> user's home directory is group writable, which
> implies that the .forward can
> be changed (deleted and re-created) by group
> members, which is a bad thing.
> Therefore, it warns you.
> 
> Then again, sometimes I'm wrong... :)
> 
> --Danny
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