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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: smail-3.1.29.1 cannot lock mailboxes
Date: 8 Jun 1995 12:52:11 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Christopher Hilton <chilton@MCS.COM> wrote:
>Changing the permission on the mail directory to 777 bin bin fixes the
>problem but is that safe?
This is everything else but safe. Mode 1777 is almost safe, but the
security experts can tell you about some race condition which makes it
unsafe enough to not ship the system with it.
The best is to fix smail. Somebody has been posting here what you've
got to change in the configuration, but i never used smail, so don't
ask me.
(Well, there's actually another fix: don't use smail at all. :)
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)