[plug] problems with sendmail

[Brian Tombleson]

The latter versions of sendmail progressively get tighter on their security.

It's warning you about a possible security hole where .forward files are
group writable.

Literally, check the permission on the ~teste/.forward file and take make
sure chmod g-w

HTH.

- Brian.

From: "Evan Lau" <evanlau at tartarus.uwa.edu.au>
> Something I came about after another person upgraded sendmail on our
server.
> Say I send an e-mail to an account "teste" which is supposed to forward
its mail
> to account "testf" (which it did before). But now it's staying in "teste"
> mailbox and I get these lines in the mail log:
>
> Aug  4 16:58:50 abc sendmail[7151]: f748woB07150: forward
> /u/t/teste/.forward.abc+: Group writable directory
> Aug  4 16:58:50 abc sendmail[7151]: f748woB07150: forward
> /u/t/teste/.forward+: Group writable directory
> Aug  4 16:58:50 abc sendmail[7151]: f748woB07150: forward
> /u/t/teste/.forward.abc: Group writable directory
> Aug  4 16:58:50 abc sendmail[7151]: f748woB07150: forward
> /u/t/teste/.forward: Group writable directory
> Aug  4 16:58:50 abc sendmail[7151]: f748woB07150:
to=<teste at abc.xyz.com.au>,
> ctladdr=<root at abc.xyz.com.au> (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00,
> mailer=local, pri=30013, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>
> Could anybody help me out?