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Subject: Re: Problem with "group writable"
From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk @ QueerNet . ORG>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:03:29 -0700 (PDT)
To: Roderick Padilla <rpadilla @ gsu . edu>
Cc: Dan Liston <dliston @ netscape . com>, majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <4.2.2.20000425104729.00d03ab0@pop.cis.gsu.edu>

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Roderick Padilla wrote:
> >None of them should be.  If they are, chmod them to 755 or 751.
> 
> Wow ...I  never thought it would require the root (top) to be like that. I 
> was just paying attention to the lower level.  I am using Sendmail's Single 
> Switch (based on 8.10) and started changing some stuff on its config trying 
> to make it run on world writable dir's w/o luck. It works now ....

Remember: if you can write to a higher-level directory, you can move the
files and create fakes.
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