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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: /var/mail default permissions??
To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 01:54:41 -0700 (MST)
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> I thought /var/mail was supposed to be mode 1777 on BSD systems??
> 
> mail.local was designed to work in that scenario and has specific code to make
> sure it's secure.. (granted, the net-2 mail.local may not have been solid, but
> the 4.4BSD mail.local has been secure since the encumbered release and later
> in the Lite releases)

login: fred
passord:
%
% ls -l /var/mail/peter
% ls: /var/mail/peter: No such file or directory
% cat > /var/mail/peter
>From anon@anon Mon Apr 01 17:52:57 1996
From: anon@anon (Bite Me)
Subject: Ha ha

Don't you wish you could do something about your mail...  give
Fred $5 and he'll unlock it for you.

					-- Anon

^D
% exit