From owner-freebsd-security Tue Aug 8 12:23:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E251C37B5A2 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 12:23:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA15089; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:23:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 15:23:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200008081923.PAA15089@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: FreeBSD-SECURITY Subject: Re: pine 4.21 port issues? In-Reply-To: <20000808201626.I261@speedy.gsinet> References: <20000808201626.I261@speedy.gsinet> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > For locking and for modifications to the inbox via copies and > renaming (or for creating new inboxes upon first invocation) you > need write access to the spool dir. No, you don't. You only need write access to the spool file. Mutual exclusion is provided by locking the file. Inboxes are *created* only by the LMDA, not by any MUA. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message