Justin Pryzby writes:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:23:09PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > Wolfgang Kohnen writes:
> > > Package: mailscanner
> > > Version: 4.38.10-1
> > > Severity: serious
> > > Justification: fhs
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > with the default configuration, mailscanner uses /tmp as the directory
> > > holding pid and lock files.  Since these dirs are world writeable, this
> > > is a security concern.  It should use /var/run/mailscanner instead. I 
> > > think this bug should be fixed downstream and be reported upstream as 
> > > well.
> > 
> > please elaborate, why you think that pid files are created in /tmp.
> 
> mailscanner-4.39.6/etc$ grep -r /tmp .
> ./MailScanner.conf:Lockfile Dir = /tmp

please re-read my question. Thanks, Matthias


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