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Date:      Mon, 7 Oct 2002 11:29:02 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Gheorghe Ardelean <ardelean@ww.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mailbox vulnerable after upgrade to 4-STABLE
Message-ID:  <20021007182902.GC22125@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210070911530.26024-100000@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0210070911530.26024-100000@servww6.ww.uni-erlangen.de>

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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:24:56AM +0200, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> After upgrading one of my systems from 4.x to 4-STABLE
> I get this message when starting pine:
>=20
> Mailbox Vulnerable - directory /var/mail must have 1777 protection

I believe that's what it's supposed to be, and pine's warning about it
being "insecure" is bogus for FreeBSD.  The warning was removed from
the FreeBSD port of pine.

> How can I fix this?

Install pine from the ports collection.

Kris

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