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Re: Possible bug in solaris2.4 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Barr)
Sat May 25 15:59:35 1996
Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 20:36:58 -0400
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From: Dave Barr <barr@math.psu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ <BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 24 May 1996 13:17:05 EDT."
<199605241717.NAA17412@tequila.randomc.com>
In message <199605241717.NAA17412@tequila.randomc.com>, Tequila System Admin wr
ites:
>I am running Solaris2.4 on a Sparc 10 and I have noticed when using a mailtool
>( I'm the root user here ) and reading others' mail, when I have finished, it
>changes the ownership of the /var/mail/'user' file to root. Is this a bug or
>a 'feature' of Solaris 2.4 ?
mailtool's not designed to read other people's e-mail. It's designed
to read _your_ email. You're root, therefore don't be surprised if
it rewrites the file and thus the new file is owned by root.
(I'll be nice and withhold my usual flames for admins who log in and
use root as their main account, especially on systems which other people
use)
--Dave
