From owner-freebsd-security Sun Jun 9 02:54:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA25747 for security-outgoing; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 02:54:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hemi.com (hemi.com [204.132.158.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA25723 for ; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 02:54:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mbarkah@localhost) by hemi.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id DAA11025; Sun, 9 Jun 1996 03:54:15 -0600 From: Ade Barkah Message-Id: <199606090954.DAA11025@hemi.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD's /var/mail permissions To: taob@io.org (Brian Tao) Date: Sun, 9 Jun 1996 03:54:15 -0600 (MDT) Cc: security@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Jun 9, 96 01:29:23 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Tao wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Karl Denninger, MCSNet wrote: > > > > Does this mean we should give up on using mail? > > No, it means you keep mail on a separate machine and manipulate > your mailbox through a server like POP3 or IMAP. But this is what started the thread, right ? With the current scheme qpop 2.2 will not work with FreeBSD; at least not for new users (it doesn't have enough permissions to set up the per-mailbox lock file.) -Ade ------------------------------------------------------------------- Inet: mbarkah@hemi.com - HEMISPHERE ONLINE - -------------------------------------------------------------------