Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 09:56:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: FreeBSD-PORTS <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-SECURITY <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pine 4.21 port issues? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000808095247.38638A-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008080020001.86895-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Matt Heckaman wrote: > This is a bad thing. The default permissions on FreeBSD for /var/mail are > root:mail 0775 which, in my opinion, is far better than 1777. I'm curious > as to why all of the sudden it is reporting the mailbox as 'vulnerable'. Dunno, but I agree with your conclusion that 0775 is better :-). > I've had a ton of users of mine freak out over this, and I must admit it's > odd. Pine aso has a new? depend on c-client4.7 which it did not have a few > months ago to my knowledge, as I have one pine build from March 19 that > does not have this depend or the mailbox warning. It sounds like a spurious warning from an over-zealous developer that did not plan for our mail delivery environment. I haven't been using Pine 4.21, but I think this is a warning that can be safely silenced in the port, although you probably want to get confirmation from others familiar with the Pine iand c-client mplementations before going ahead with that. Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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