A/UX Mail files

George Gonzalez grg at berlin.acss.umn.edu
Thu Jan 26 02:08:22 AEST 1989


  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.

The A/UX hot line re-created the problem on their system.  This was the
first time they had heard of this. They didn't have an answer either.

Any ideas?



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