Strange file appearing

From: Ivan Fetch (sunmanagers_at_cs.du.edu)
Date: 05/31/03

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    Hello,
       I've got a weird problem and I'm curious whether anyone has experienced
    something simelar. A user told me today that she had a strange unwelcomed
    email folder. looking in her ~/mail directory I found a file named
    .!dtother_user_name (where other_user_name is a username of another one of
    our students).

       This file was owned by the other_user_name, with 600 permissions. It
    could have been placed in the first student's ~/mail folder, by
    other_user_name as the ~/mail
    directory had 777 permissions (which I of course changed). The date on
    the .!dt file was 02/14/1953, and the contents are as follows:
    4
    ..
    5 5 1
    sent-mail
    180 5 4
    sent-mail-sep-2002
    355 5 3
    Webmail_Trash
    530 5 2

       The possabilities I see are that the other_user_name user placed the
    file in the first student's ~/mail directory, there is something weird
    going on with the file system and the file appears there due to
    corruption, or perhaps the dtmail application put the file there (although
    I can't see why it would pick another user's home directory). I asked the
    first student about giving
    out her password or leaving a workstation unattended and she indicated
    that neither have happened. I asked whether she had run chmod on her
    ~/mail directory and she was noncommital.

       Has anyone else seen these .!dt type files laying around, with improper
    user names and permissions? What are some suggestions for making or
    breaking the theory that something could be causing file system flukes or
    corruption?

    Thanks as always for your help,
    ivan Fetch.
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