+++ USM Bish [linux-india] <11/12/01 23:14 +0530>: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 01:24:56PM -0500, Farhan Ahmed wrote: > > I recently set up a popa3d server on my system. Now when I run > > Pine, it gives me a message .. > > 'Mailbox vulnerable - directory /var/spool/mail must have 1777 > > protection' > ---end quoted text--- > > The message is not because of the pop3 server installed. It is > a message from pine, which looks for this vulnerability during > execution. The permissions for the dir is: > drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 4096 Dec 7 23:06 mail > To get this as root do : chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail
Small correction Bish ... this is because of the c-client library shared by pine and uw-imapd / ipop3d. Either of them can throw this warning - pine throws it when opening /var/spool/mail/$user whereas ipop3d will keep throwing it in /var/log/messages (or wherever syslog is set to log it). -- Suresh Ramasubramanian <----> mallet <at> efn dot org EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
