[Dovecot] failure to create lock

Olivier Tharan olive at pasteur.fr
Wed Jun 9 17:07:43 EEST 2004


* Javi <dakota at menta.net> (20040609 14:56):
> the permissions of /var/spool/mail
> 
> drwxrwxr-x   3 root   mail   4096 jun  9 14:52 mail
> 
> if change the third grup R-X to RWX works?
> is insecure this action?

Yes, add also the sticky bit : chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail
(or chmod +t) so the permissions appear as dwrxwrxwrt.

-- 
olive



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