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Subject: Re: 550 World Writable directory
From: Joe Hartley <jh @ brainiac . com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:22:31 -0400 (EDT)
To: liza @ bannister . com
Cc: majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <4.2.0.58.20000627134627.00a13c80@bannister.com>

Liza Deatrick Peak <liza@bannister.com> wrote:
> Dan - I am now getting the following error and I have read through the 
> various questions from the web site with little success. Also, I have 
> checked permissions on the files and they are as follows:
> 
> /usr/local/majordomo-1.94.5/lists       drwxrwxrwx      majordomo daemon

> :include:/usr/local/majordomo/lists/acuia-members... Cannot open
> /usr/local/majordomo/lists/acuia-members: World writable directory

I think this is pretty self-explanatory: sendmail is complaining that
your lists directory is world-writable, which can be a security risk.

This command should get you going:
   chmod 750 /usr/local/majordomo-1.94.5/lists


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