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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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check-permissions Check Permissions on Mail Rerouting Files

Synopsis

/usr/lib/mail/sh/check-permissions [login]

Description

The check-permissions command is a migration aid for sendmail(1M). Use it to check the /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file for all configured alias files and to check the alias files for :include: files. It also checks for certain .forward files. For each file that check-permissions checks, it verifies that none of the parent directories are group- or world-writeable. It reports on any directories that are overly permissive. Otherwise, it reports that no unsafe directories were found.

The command-line arguments determine which .forward files are checked. If you specify no argument, the current user's home directory is checked ...

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