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Date:      Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:22:54 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: Some questions about compiling -current
Message-ID:  <199603040922.KAA10981@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199603040648.RAA12053@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 4, 96 05:18:22 pm

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As Michael Smith wrote:

> > Yes. Having your maildir world writable is a _huge_ security hole.

> It's not actually quite so bad - Netscape requires this for its builtin
> movemail to work too.

You've got it reverse.  If Netcrap has got something broken, this
doesn't make it a good reason.

One more thing to avoid Netcrap...
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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