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1998 Aug 14
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Pine 4.02 and directory perms
...errors about not being able to create
a lockfile when dinking with my mailspool in /var/spool/mail.
After doing some digging on DejaNews and the Pine website, I find a
document who says the solution is to 'chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail' (you can
read the doc at http://www.washington.edu/pine/QandA/sysadmins.html).
Now, here's the question: isn't this inherently bad? Doesn't this allow
all sorts of exploits and such, as I can just go into /var/spool/mail and
start dumping things all over the place? Doesn't this open us up to a
bunch of problems /tmp shares as well?
The other...