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To: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
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Subject: Re: /var/mail default permissions?? 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 23:33:20 -0700
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>I thought /var/mail was supposed to be mode 1777 on BSD systems??

   No. This would allow someone to create a bogus mailbox on behalf of someone
else (assuming one didn't yet exist) that could then be read by people other
than the intended recipient.
   This issue has been thrashed out many times before...

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project