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From: wilson@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Wilson Chan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: permission bits on mbox
Message-ID: <1895@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 16 Mar 90 05:10:02 GMT
Reply-To: wilson@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Wilson Chan)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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I was surprised to find out that the permission bits on ~/Mailboxes/Active.mbox
/mbox and mbox~ are set to everyone readable by default.  Has this "feature" 
been discussed before?  I know you can manually set the file protection mask
bits in Preferences, but isn't it logical not to let anyone go through your
mail?

--wilson