Re: Possible mail spool problem

[cjuleff () IAC IAFRICA COM (Conrad Juleff)]

suse 5.2 has the permissions 1777 or drwxrwxrwt. This isnt a problem
and most systems are setup this way.

On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 08:06:32PM -0600, signal wrote:
> Following installation of suse 5.1, the setup software sets the mail spool
> directory world writable, which has a potential of causing some security
> problems.  although I have checked alot of possible forms of exploiting
> this, there is probably some I have missed.  removing the o+w bit from the
> directory will surely solve the problems.
>
>                                                 signal
>                                                 <soren () PANGEA CA>