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From: Radu MOLNAR <taipan@hawat.cc.ubbcluj.ro>
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Radu Molnar
Babes-Bolyai Comunication Center
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On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 10:37:36AM +0300, Radu MOLNAR wrote:
> > yes, i'm using pine from ports
> >
> > --------------------------------
> > Radu Molnar
> > Babes-Bolyai Comunication Center
> > --------------------------------
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:58:31AM +0300, Radu MOLNAR wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello list
> > > >
> > > > pine gives me this message:
> > > > [Folder vulnerable - directory /var/mail must have 1777 protection]
> > > > why?
> > > >
> > > > ls -l in my home dir:
> > > > drwx------   2 taipan  wheel       512 Apr 15 09:26 mail
> > > >
> > > > an ls -l in /var/mail:
> > > > -rw-------  1 taipan  wheel  11089 Apr 16 09:52 taipan
> > > >
> > > > is this serious?
> > >
> > > I believe the error message is wrong on FreeBSD, and it should not be
> > > there if you use the FreeBSD port.
>
> You didn't ls -ld /var/mail; mode 1777 should not be needed on
> FreeBSD, but perhaps you have incorrect permissions still.  Or, the
> pine port could just be wrong (maybe I'm mis-remembering that the
> warning was removed, or maybe it came back).
>
> Kris
>

mode for /var/mail was 1775. i changed it to 1777 and i dont get the
message anymore. isn't 1777 a security risk?