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Date:      Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:44:53 +0200
From:      "Karsten W. Rohrbach" <karsten@rohrbach.de>
To:        Nuno Teixeira <nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /var/mail permissions: 0755 or 01777 ?
Message-ID:  <20010622164453.J64624@mail.webmonster.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010621214821.C376-100000@gateway.bogus>; from nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:51:34PM %2B0100
References:  <20010621214821.C376-100000@gateway.bogus>

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Nuno Teixeira(nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com)@2001.06.21 21:51:34 +0000:
> Hello to all,
>=20
> The FreeBSD default permissions for /var/mail are 0755.
>=20
> Why is that PINE says that the /var/mail directory is vulnerable and it
> says to change it to 01777?
>=20
> What are the correct permissions?

use Maildir
faster, simpler, secure -- simply put: better ;-)
=2E..and avoid uwashington code (pine, uw-imap, ...)
/k

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