Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:11:31 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Frank Tobin <ftobin@uiuc.edu> Cc: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pine 4.21 port issues? Message-ID: <200008082311.RAA44058@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Aug 2000 00:47:20 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008080044370.26063-100000@srh0902.urh.uiuc.edu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008080044370.26063-100000@srh0902.urh.uiuc.edu>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008080044370.26063-100000@srh0902.urh.uiuc.edu> Frank Tobin writes: : 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) I'm not sure how this is better for well behaved mail programs. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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