On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 20:25 +0100, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > At least now you should get a big fat warning and complaint in your > maillog about the permissions of the .forward file. 'chmod > 640 .forward' it. "/home" is hopefully `chmod 755' and not more (not > world writable). It does seem odd, to me, that many files in our home directories default to being "-rwxrw-rw-". Surely making things readable, by default, to anyone is a bad idea? You're relying on parent directory permissions to protect you from snooping; and sometimes they're not brilliantly set, either. I'd have thought it best to start off with "-rwx------", and let people add permissions when they're necessary. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
