From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 22 15:50:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DFBF37B423 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:50:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA19621; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:50:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:50:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200009222250.SAA19621@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Leif Neland Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Permissions for /var/mail In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > Pine 4.21 complains that /var/mail is vulnerable, that the perms should be > 1777 Pine is a steaming, festering pile of Let's try that again. The developers of Pine have certain erroneous ideas about how mail systems work; this is one of them. Ignore Pine's plaints and things should actually work correctly. The correct permissions for the /var/mail directory are determined by the local mail delivery agent (mail.local), not by Pine. (I certainly wouldn't accept security advice from the Pine developers....) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message