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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: smail 3.1.29.1 delivery problems Date: 12 Aug 1996 22:05:03 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4uo9qf$uo@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Dvs0ow.C0t@racoon.riga.lv> <4umupd$n5l@prim.sartax.saratov.su> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E skp@sartax.saratov.su (Serge K. Polyakov) wrote: > You can try to set up permissions on /var/mail: rwxrwxrwt (set sticky-bit) This is a bad idea security-wise, since there are known race conditions that might compromise the security of the mail spool files. Smail can be setup so it uses /usr/libexec/mail.local to perform the actual delivery. -- 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. ;-)