From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 11:29: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17DF137B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:29:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A74043EAA for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:29:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DCD6866D99; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:29:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:29:02 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Gheorghe Ardelean Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mailbox vulnerable after upgrade to 4-STABLE Message-ID: <20021007182902.GC22125@xor.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="DSayHWYpDlRfCAAQ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --DSayHWYpDlRfCAAQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:24:56AM +0200, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > After upgrading one of my systems from 4.x to 4-STABLE > I get this message when starting pine: >=20 > Mailbox Vulnerable - directory /var/mail must have 1777 protection I believe that's what it's supposed to be, and pine's warning about it being "insecure" is bogus for FreeBSD. The warning was removed from the FreeBSD port of pine. > How can I fix this? Install pine from the ports collection. Kris --DSayHWYpDlRfCAAQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9odJuWry0BWjoQKURAhUDAJ9k/Qrilgm2fG0zOG6onaumQAXwCQCg7uzo 8+bmkb5MW1O0ZUX3K1iCcj8= =47G0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DSayHWYpDlRfCAAQ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message