Re: bad sendmail console dump
From: Kent Smith (ksmith@ipsoinc.com)
Date: 01/13/03
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From: Kent Smith <ksmith@ipsoinc.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 21:03:11 GMT
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:02:39 -0500, "Song Zhang" <sozst1@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>I didn't specifically do anything and just kept getting noisy message like
>this (suppose my machine name is abc with a user name xyz). Can anyone find
>out the reason for me. Thanks in advance.
>
>Timestamp, abc sendmail[1949]: hoCJxj401949: forward <some user
>dir>/.forward.abc+: Group Writable directory
>
Looks like <some user dir> has group write permissions, which means
that a .forward file could be surreptitiously dropped into place and
mail could be stolen. Check the permissions on that directory, or
remove the .forward files.
--Kent
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