Re: /var/mail question

2003-07-07 Thread Daniel Bye
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:59:51AM -0400, quadrant wrote: I was temporarilly using pine to retrieve my email, and upon exiting the program, pine notified me that the /var/mail directory was vulnerable, and advised a chmod 1777 of such. The default is 775. What are the implications of this, and

Re: /var/mail question

2003-07-07 Thread Bill Moran
quadrant wrote: I was temporarilly using pine to retrieve my email, and upon exiting the program, pine notified me that the /var/mail directory was vulnerable, and advised a chmod 1777 of such. The default is 775. What are the implications of this, and won't 1777 make the folder more vulnerable?

Re: /var/mail question

2003-07-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
quadrant wrote: I was temporarilly using pine to retrieve my email, and upon exiting the program, pine notified me that the /var/mail directory was vulnerable, and advised a chmod 1777 of such. The default is 775. What are the implications of this, and won't 1777 make the folder more vulnerable?