Subject: 4.05 wierdness

From: Ian Hall-Beyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 07:39:59 -0600 (MDT)

Got 4.05 compiled, and all of a sudden, I get this:

 [Mailbox vulnerable - directory must have 1777 protection]

Only thing that changed was the version of pine. ANybody know what this is
about? I don't particularly care for the idea of 777 perms on my mail
folder.

-Ian

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From: "Aaron S. Hawley" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 10:44:03 -0400 (EDT)

look at other archived messages in the past month from this mailing list
at http://www.washington.edu/pine/pine-info/

i've had the same problem with PC-Pine and I can't even get rid of that
error message no matter what I do.  You can even check this option:

 [ ]  quell-lock-failure-warnings

but i still et the warnings.  we have to figure this out!  we need more
info Pine Development team on how to fix this!  or maybe it can't be fixed
like they keep telling us because pine doesn't work well with permissions.

Aaron

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From: Tawfik Daoud <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 14:41:17 +0000 (WET)

> about? I don't particularly care for the idea of 777 perms on my mail

This protection is needed because of the lock file created when pine is
extecuted. The lock file role is to avoid any damage to the real inbox 
mail file belonging to the user name. The system administrator should set
the mail folder to: chmod 1777 mail
The latter action will remove the message "Mailbox vulnerable" forever.
Note that the latter does not allow the users to read other users
message files, it does only allow the users to write and create their own
belonging files into the mail directory.
-Tawfik
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