Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:56:35 -0400 From: "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Bug: rmail in /bin (was: root & toor) Message-ID: <3B20E7A3.DBC587BB@lmc.ericsson.se> References: <20010607212013.B4738@anarchy.com> <Pine.BSF.4.33.0106080830090.17003-100000@srv2.any> <20010608090357.B12983@ringworld.oblivion.bg> <200106081446.KAA36576@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > > <<On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 09:03:57 +0300, Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> said: > > > But yes, this is apparently a documented bug - rmail is not part of the boot > > process, there is no real need for it in 'emergency' situations when /usr > > is not mounted yet, so no, it should not really reside in /bin. > > Unfortunately, as with /etc/rmt, it is part of a protocol the > client implementations of which we do not control. IIRC, /etc/rmt is a symlink. Why not the same for rmail? $2% A. -- La sémantique est la gravité de l'abstraction. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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