[99840] in RedHat Linux List
Re: fetchmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Tue Nov 17 09:43:34 1998
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 09:43:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Ramon Gandia wrote:
>
>
> Randy Smith wrote:
>
> > > then chmod 0644 .fetchmailrc and type fetchmail -v to verify it's
> > > output.
> >
> > Just a note: My version of fetchmail will not run with perms on
> > .fetchmailrc greater then 600. RH 5.0
>
> Mine won't either. RH 5.1. Reason is that your password is
> there, naked, for all to see if it had read permissions for
> anyone else. Makes sense.
Sometimes memory doesn't serve so well! These guys are right it's
0600 not 0644.
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