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On Jul 29 15:36, D. Boland wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > The permissions of the home folder are set to 01777 by default (S_ISVTX > > bit!). Since we can't rely on central administration for Cygwin, this > > allows a user to create her own homedir automatically at first start of > > a Cygwin shell. > > > > You might consider to disable this full patch check in sendmail for > > Cygwin. Is there some configuration flag, maybe? > > > > If I make the 'Users' group owner of the /home folder and remove the world-writable > bit, Sendmail doesn't complain anymore. I found out that everybody who is logged on, > will be put in the 'Users' group anyway. Uhm... that works for you, but you can't rely on that for a sendmail package. You'd have to deal with the default 01777 /home as well. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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