From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 22 7:44:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.webmonster.de (datasink.webmonster.de [194.162.162.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44A7137B403 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 07:44:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karsten@rohrbach.de) Received: (qmail 73563 invoked by uid 1000); 22 Jun 2001 14:44:53 -0000 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 16:44:53 +0200 From: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" To: Nuno Teixeira Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /var/mail permissions: 0755 or 01777 ? Message-ID: <20010622164453.J64624@mail.webmonster.de> References: <20010621214821.C376-100000@gateway.bogus> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ogUXNSQj4OI1q3LQ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010621214821.C376-100000@gateway.bogus>; from nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 09:51:34PM +0100 X-Arbitrary-Number-Of-The-Day: 42 X-URL: http://www.webmonster.de/ X-Disclaimer: My opinions do not necessarily represent those of my employer Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --ogUXNSQj4OI1q3LQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 > question =3D ( to ) ? be : ! be; // Wm. Shakespeare KR433/KR11-RIPE -- WebMonster Community Founder -- nGENn GmbH Senior Techie http://www.webmonster.de/ -- ftp://ftp.webmonster.de/ -- http://www.ngenn.n= et/ karsten&rohrbach.de -- alpha&ngenn.net -- alpha&scene.org -- catch@spam.de GnuPG 0x2964BF46 2001-03-15 42F9 9FFF 50D4 2F38 DBEE DF22 3340 4F4E 2964 B= F46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 1= 0x --ogUXNSQj4OI1q3LQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7M1nlM0BPTilkv0YRAvTOAKC5QYHCaQpF0Ldm8d9pgQjucgk1DwCgtNi/ 3Z6UFWLWs5O2GqwteUqxQyo= =qEaI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ogUXNSQj4OI1q3LQ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message