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Re: /home/user permissions?

From: Sandy Drobic (postfix-usersjapantest.homelinux.com)
Date: Wed Oct 26 2005 - 16:25:35 CDT


Javier Viegas wrote:

> Thanks for the clarification, there is something strange about vacation,
> even if i use vacation user and vacation -I user, the .forward, .msg and .db
> are been created on /root intead of /home/user. Im doing it with root, if i
> su user and type the same commands the files are created anyway on /root ,
> why is this??

If you really changed the user id to someone not root, and the permissions
of /root are "700" with owner/group "root/root", then you probably have a
big problem with permissions. If /root is not restricted to root alone you
probably have a permissions problem anyway.

Sandy