[Dovecot] Re : Permission denied

[Charlie Brady]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Frédéric Sapin wrote:

> I'm using linux Fedora Core 2.
> The permissions are :
> drwxrwxrwt    2 root     mail           32 2004-06-16 04:45 /var/spool/mail/
> 
> These permissions are made buy the command chmod a+rwxt /var/spool/mail.
> 
> So if someone wants to erase the /var/spool/mail directory, it's possible 
> unfortunately.

No. User would need a writable /var/spool to delete the "mail"  
directory.

See other comments about (lack of) ability to delete files within that
directory.

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Charlie