From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 4 01:54:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA17113 for current-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 01:54:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA17107 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 01:54:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA09080 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:54:21 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA04510 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:54:21 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id KAA10981 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:22:54 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603040922.KAA10981@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Some questions about compiling -current To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 10:22:54 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603040648.RAA12053@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Mar 4, 96 05:18:22 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > Yes. Having your maildir world writable is a _huge_ security hole. > It's not actually quite so bad - Netscape requires this for its builtin > movemail to work too. You've got it reverse. If Netcrap has got something broken, this doesn't make it a good reason. One more thing to avoid Netcrap... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)