Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 11:39:34 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: pst@shockwave.com (Paul Traina) Cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's /var/mail permissions Message-ID: <199606080739.LAA00996@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199606071727.KAA01470@precipice.shockwave.com> from "Paul Traina" at "Jun 7, 96 10:27:21 am"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> I'm confused, why do you say adduser must create new user mailbox? > Mail.local is already suid root and adduser should deliver a preformatted > mail message with mail.local. bad guy: create /var/mail/user1 0666 admin: create user1 user1: receive mail from outside world bad guy: read user1 mail -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199606080739.LAA00996>