Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:50:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Permissions for /var/mail Message-ID: <200009222250.SAA19621@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009230011560.807-100000@arnold.neland.dk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009230011560.807-100000@arnold.neland.dk>
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<<On Sat, 23 Sep 2000 00:15:31 +0200 (CEST), Leif Neland <leifn@neland.dk> 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
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