Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 14:29:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD-PORTS <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-SECURITY <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pine 4.21 port issues? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008081425560.94712-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1000808095247.38638A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Robert Watson wrote: ... : It sounds like a spurious warning from an over-zealous developer that did : not plan for our mail delivery environment. I haven't been using Pine : 4.21, but I think this is a warning that can be safely silenced in the : port, although you probably want to get confirmation from others familiar : with the Pine iand c-client mplementations before going ahead with that. Well from what Rick was saying in our private conversation and what the documents say if you read them carefully, pine uses /var/mail for it's locks. My guess is that it assumes since /var/mail is world writable on most systems it can use it as a temporary directory or something :) At the very least, they could make more intelligent error messages, ie: if /var/mail is world writable and not sticky, report that error, however if /var/mail is not world writable report something like, "/var/mail is not writable to us, lock failure." Either way, it's better than screaming "Your mailbox is vulnerable!" I wonder if anyone would commit that patch if I made it? :) : Robert N M Watson * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.qc.ca http://www.lucida.qc.ca/ * * GPG fingerprint - A9BC F3A8 278E 22F2 9BDA BFCF 74C3 2D31 C035 5390 * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE5kFFvdMMtMcA1U5ARAvwkAJ9+ByzG3BYunXXeMXIEr1lK2tCC0QCfR6Hn 6/rkkJZOvsNFtH2+NDEVhHQ= =D0Y+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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