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Date:      Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:57:27 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>
Cc:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc newsyslog.conf 
Message-ID:  <785.1000742247@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:54:34 %2B0200." <20010917115434.A86568@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> 

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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 11:54:34 +0200, Alexander Langer wrote:

> >   Change maillog to have permissions of 640.  Users shouldn't be able to
> >   eavesdrop on other users' communications.
> 
> Users can still run "mailq" in our default setup.

And well they should.  Unless this extra paranoia/privacy protection is
optional, you're going to annoy a lot of people, who enjoy being able to
see what happened to their e-mail.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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