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Date:      Mon, 10 Jun 1996 00:07:38 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com>
To:        taob@io.org (Brian Tao)
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: setuid root sendmail vs. mode 1733 /var/spool/mqueue?
Message-ID:  <199606100607.AAA05202@hemi.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.92.960609232322.23792E-100000@zap.io.org> from "Brian Tao" at Jun 9, 96 11:26:16 pm

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Brian Tao wrote:

[Re: Denial of service by filling up a world-writable mqueue]
>     True enough, but since /tmp already puts the server in that
> position, I'm not overly worried about someone pulling this kind of
> stunt.  ...

You may want to create /tmp in it's own filesystem.

Regards,

-Ade
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