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тАО12-21-2004 07:22 AM
тАО12-21-2004 07:22 AM
I have a .forward file for user sybase and then I try to mail then it says in mail.log.
Dec 21 21:17:39 ham10d sendmail[219974]: VAA0000215655: forward /sybase/sybmgr/.
forward: World writable directory
ls -l /sybase
drwxr-xr-x 20 sybase sybase 8192 Dec 21 19:35 sybmgr
ham10d /> ls -l /sybase/sybmgr/.forward
-rw------- 1 sybase sybase 71 Dec 20 18:28 /sybase/sybmgr/.forward
So why does it say world writable?
Thanks for any idea,
Michael
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тАО12-21-2004 01:26 PM
тАО12-21-2004 01:26 PM
Re: mail forwarding fails
Try: ls -ld /sybase/sybmgr
and: chmod 750 /sybase/sybmgr
Hint: Just Google for "World writable directory", as this (at first glance) does not appeat to be Tru64 specific.
hth,
Hein.
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тАО12-21-2004 07:50 PM
тАО12-21-2004 07:50 PM
Re: mail forwarding fails
this is what I thought. But why is 755 world writable? I will have a look into the links I found at the google search.
thanks,
Michael
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тАО12-21-2004 11:43 PM
тАО12-21-2004 11:43 PM
Re: mail forwarding fails
I changed access to that dir and still the same error.
drwx------ 20 sybase sybase 8192 Dec 21 19:35 sybmgr
I still do not understand that.
thanks,
Michael
ps. the machine runs 5.1A pk6.
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тАО12-22-2004 12:25 AM
тАО12-22-2004 12:25 AM
Re: mail forwarding fails
I deleted .forward and it is still complaining. I tried the global /var/adm/forward/username
but that did not make any difference.
How do I get the version of sendmail?
thanks,
Michael
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тАО12-22-2004 01:33 AM
тАО12-22-2004 01:33 AM
Re: mail forwarding fails
This should show you the version of sendmail that you are running.
sendmail -bs < /dev/null
HTH,
Peter
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тАО12-22-2004 09:39 AM
тАО12-22-2004 09:39 AM
SolutionStart at your home directory and run the command : 'ls -ld .'
If the permissions are such that only the owner of the directory has write permissions, then go the to parent directory and repeat the steps until you reach root (/). Any of these directories, including root, with group or world writeable permissions need to be set to more secure settings.
Best wishes on getting to a solution to the problem.
Don
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тАО12-22-2004 07:45 PM
тАО12-22-2004 07:45 PM
Re: mail forwarding fails
Is only mail from sap complaining ? In most cases this is caused by /var/adm/sendmail protection. The whole directory chain var, adm and sendmail should have 755 protection.
__ Johan.
_JB_
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тАО12-22-2004 11:14 PM
тАО12-22-2004 11:14 PM
Re: mail forwarding fails
you were right. The /sybase was world writable. If that can be figured out why is the error message not more specific?
In man forward there seems to an inconsistency. At first it says
/var/adm/forward/username and then
/var/forward/username
Now what is it? I have tried both without result. Otherwise it works. Are there any good reasons for using the forward directory and what are the requirement concerning ownership and access?
Thanks for your time,
Michael
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тАО12-23-2004 02:22 AM
тАО12-23-2004 02:22 AM
Re: mail forwarding fails
the actual direcoty path can be defined in sendmail.cf file, it's system-wide mail forwarding settting. good reasons for permission setting like that is you won't interested in allowing someone else to get your email by mucking it.
Cheers !
YJ