Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 01:54:41 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/mail default permissions?? Message-ID: <199604100854.BAA01214@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199604100556.NAA03118@jhome.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Apr 10, 96 01:56:20 pm
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> I thought /var/mail was supposed to be mode 1777 on BSD systems?? > > mail.local was designed to work in that scenario and has specific code to make > sure it's secure.. (granted, the net-2 mail.local may not have been solid, but > the 4.4BSD mail.local has been secure since the encumbered release and later > in the Lite releases) login: fred passord: % % ls -l /var/mail/peter % ls: /var/mail/peter: No such file or directory % cat > /var/mail/peter >From anon@anon Mon Apr 01 17:52:57 1996 From: anon@anon (Bite Me) Subject: Ha ha Don't you wish you could do something about your mail... give Fred $5 and he'll unlock it for you. -- Anon ^D % exit
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