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From: eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: permission bits on mbox
Message-ID: <395@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
Date: 18 Mar 90 22:54:36 GMT
References: <1895@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: San Francisco State University
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In article <1895@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
	wilson@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Wilson Chan) writes:
>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?

Yes.

chmod 700 /usr/template/user/Mailboxes

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