Le Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:35:04 -0700, William Hunt a écrit*:

> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:13:29 +0200, Eric Hameleers wrote:
>> William Hunt wrote:
>>> for each piece of incoming mail, /var/log/mail shows
>>> two error messages:
>>> [...] forward /home/XXX/.forward: Group writable directory
>>> [...] forward /home/XXX/.forward.xxx: Group writable directory
> [...]
>>
>> Sendmail will mutter like this if / or /home are group writable.
>
> Right.
> both / and /home are 0755, user dirs all 0711.
> but, (heh-heh) i've got /home mount'd -bind off /mnt/hda4/home,
> and /mnt/hda4/home perms were bogus. doh!
> chmod 0755 /mnt/hda4/home && echo "FIXED"

Ah, that's something you may post to the comp.mail.sendmail group
and/or the alias sendmail-YYYY at domain support.sendmail.org
(see http://www.sendmail.org/email-addresses.html)

it may help some other users that could forget to not
only verify the rules for dirs but also the hidden tricks :-)