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Re: The eternal uid issue
- From: "D. Boland" <daniel at boland dot nl>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 15:36:49 +0200
- Subject: Re: The eternal uid issue
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- References: <20140723091409 dot GH27005 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <53CF9E0F dot F596FC60 at boland dot nl> <20140723152357 dot GA24446 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <53D0AD3A dot 1FDF0B3F at boland dot nl> <20140724135222 dot GD12212 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <53D17DCD dot 726524E0 at boland dot nl> <20140725124200 dot GC8725 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <53D604BC dot 1CBD4557 at boland dot nl> <20140728091409 dot GA25860 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <53D6373A dot 193E3E47 at boland dot nl> <20140728115308 dot GA11725 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
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.
Regards,
Daniel
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