From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 3 22:46:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA07655 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 22:46:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA07645 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 22:46:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA12053; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 17:18:23 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199603040648.RAA12053@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Some questions about compiling -current To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 17:18:22 +1030 (CST) Cc: shanee@rabbit.augusta.de, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603040555.HAA16715@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Mar 4, 96 07:55:57 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Mark Murray stands accused of saying: > > > 3. at the beginning of make world the script changes the permission from > > /var/mail. But myy smail need 1777 at /var/mail. Is there anything with my > > smail? > > > > rabbit:/root# ll /usr/local/bin/smail > > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 241664 19 Dez 16:24 /usr/local/bin/smail* > > Yes. Having your maildir world writable is a _huge_ security hole. Do you > have your own smail, or did you build it from ports? I believe the one in > /usr/ports/mail/smail is OK. change to that directory and type "make". > (put your smail source tarball in /usr/ports/distfiles first). It's not actually quite so bad - Netscape requires this for its builtin movemail to work too. > Mark Murray -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[