[Dovecot] Re : Permission denied

[Timo Sirainen]

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 17:20, 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.

And deleting other people's mail isn't actually possible then. That's
why there's the +t sticky bit. It's the same as in /tmp directory. Users
can only create files and delete their own files, but can't delete files
created by others.

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