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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[-- Attachment #1 --] Nuno Teixeira(nuno.mailinglists@pt-quorum.com)@2001.06.21 21:51:34 +0000: > Hello to all, > > The FreeBSD default permissions for /var/mail are 0755. > > Why is that PINE says that the /var/mail directory is vulnerable and it > says to change it to 01777? > > What are the correct permissions? use Maildir faster, simpler, secure -- simply put: better ;-) ...and avoid uwashington code (pine, uw-imap, ...) /k -- > question = ( 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.net/ 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 BF46 Please do not remove my address from To: and Cc: fields in mailing lists. 10x [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7M1nlM0BPTilkv0YRAvTOAKC5QYHCaQpF0Ldm8d9pgQjucgk1DwCgtNi/ 3Z6UFWLWs5O2GqwteUqxQyo= =qEaI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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