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Date:      Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:56:18 -0500 (EST)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        wollman@lcs.mit.edu, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /var/mail (was: re: Help, permission problems...)
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.961031155558.8545M-100000@quagmire.ki.net>
In-Reply-To: <199610311823.LAA25640@phaeton.artisoft.com>

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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > > He is also the principle author (apparently) of IMAP4, a highly
> > > desirable piece of software for anyone with a 1995 or later mail
> > > client.
> > 	Agreed...which is why I brought this whole discussion into here...
> > 
> > 	From what Mark has said, about the only way I can think of for
> > getting this *obvious* security bug fixed is to, either:
> 
> [ ... ]
> 
> > 	IMHO...what having .lock locking capabilities in IMAP4 is
> > doing is encouraging system administrators to use NFS mounted mail
> > spools, instead of *teaching* system administrators to *not* setup
> > their systems that way...
> 
> Or publicize the denial of service attack in the news groups where
> IMAP4 is discussed and hope someone uses it.
>

	Very nasty :)

Marc G. Fournier                                  scrappy@ki.net
Systems Administrator @ ki.net               scrappy@freebsd.org




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