Re: Permissions for /var/mail

2000-09-23 Thread Max Khon 

hi, there!

On Sat, 23 Sep 2000, Leif Neland wrote:

> Pine 4.21 complains that /var/mail is vulnerable, that the perms should be
> 1777
> 
> Would this be less vulnerable than 775 which make world restores it to?

this happens because ports/mail/pine4/patches/patch-aw was not merged when
libc-client was moved to separate port

/fjoe



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Re: Permissions for /var/mail

2000-09-22 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach 

Leif Neland([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Sep 23, 2000 at 12:15:31AM +0200:
> Pine 4.21 complains that /var/mail is vulnerable, that the perms should be
> 1777
> 
> Would this be less vulnerable than 775 which make world restores it to?
> 
> Leif
since when does qmail write to /var/mail???
*evilgrin*
/k


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Re: Permissions for /var/mail

2000-09-22 Thread Warner Losh 

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Garrett
Wollman writes:
: (I certainly wouldn't accept security advice from the Pine
: developers)

Maybe we should fix the pine port to not whine like that.

Oh wait, we do...

Warner


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