Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 00:47:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pine 4.21 port issues? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008080044370.26063-100000@srh0902.urh.uiuc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008080127370.87221-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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Matt Heckaman, at 01:33 -0400 on Tue, 8 Aug 2000, wrote: > The point is, I strictly control world writable directories on my system, > making /var/mail world writable to satisfy pine seems a silly thing to do > in my opinion. I run qmail on the system through procmail, and all mail > files are owned to the user name and group, ie the files themselves are > not group owned to mail. Your safest course of action is actually to probably not even use /var/mail, but rather have mailboxes directly in each user's home directory. Qmail supports this. (/var/qmail/doc/INSTALL.mbox) -- Frank Tobin http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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