A/UX Mail files

[Antonio Ordonez]

In article <10131 at ut-emx.UUCP> dlnash at ut-emx.UUCP (Donald L. Nash) writes:
>In article <981 at riddle.UUCP>, domo at riddle.UUCP (Dominic Dunlop) writes:
>> In article <289 at berlin.acss.umn.edu> grg at berlin.acss.umn.edu
>> 	(George Gonzalez) writes:
>> >
>> >  I have a question for you A/UX gurus.  On our A/UX system all the mail
>> >files have too many permissions: i.e.:
>> >
>> >-rw-rw----  gus
>> >-rw-rw----  harry
>> >
>> >We'd rather have the files be -rw-------, i.e. only accessible by the owner.
>> >
>> >Don't suggest chmod 600 *, as the mail file gets deleted when you read all
>> >your mail; when recreated it gets -rw-rw----- mode again.


Since I posted a comment about confirming this and passing it on to
engineering to be fixed I have been getting mail from people that 
say "It's not broken, don't fix it", because of that here is a 
follow-up

The problem is that when a user has the mailbox file created, it gets
created with the user as the owner of the file, but the group is the group
of the sender (not mail or daemon), For example

If the user guest that belongs to group x gets mail from a user belonging
to group y, his mailbox file (/usr/mail/guest ) will have a group y.

-rw-rw----  guest    y 

Hope this clears the confusion if any was created.


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