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From: lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: mh and security
Message-ID: <302@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
Date: 23 Sep 90 22:29:43 GMT
References: <2146@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Organization: Athabasca University
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xiaohua@bnlux0.bnl.gov (Xiao Hua) writes:

>I just started using mh and found one thing is disturbing. After inc'ing all
>incoming mail into inbox, I noticed that all the messages names by integer
>numbers are readable by the whole world.  Is this supposed to happen ? 

The actual message files are created with permissions based on your
umask. I think you will find, though, that your ~/Mail directory was
created with mode 700, which prevents anyone else from getting at those
files.

-- 
    Lyndon Nerenberg  VE6BBM / Computing Services / Athabasca University
        {alberta,cbmvax,mips}!atha!lyndon || lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca

      The only thing open about OSF is their mouth.  --Chuck Musciano