On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Mark Crispin wrote: MC> The locks are 666 for a reason. SHIT! Sorry... The lock mode MUST be selectable. I can't see almost any reason for world-writable locks for me and my systems. If somebody wants to, he can set them 0666 by hand. In any case I would require truly shared mailboxes, it's enough for me to have the lock mode group-writable (0660) and permit access for the specified group. And only! Making lock-file mode 0666 doesn't allow me to detect hostile user whether he/she appears on my system, but easily allows him/her to perform at least 2 different DoS attacks agains somebody's Pine. It's headache. SY, Seva Gluschenko, just stranger at the Road. GVS-RIPE: Cronyx Plus / RiNet network administrator. --- IRC: erra * Origin: Erra Netmale (gvsat_private) [http://gvs.rinet.ru/]
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