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Article #8912Re: emacs directory missing?
From: Piet van Oostrum
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 12:46
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 12:46
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>>>>> plyidp@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (D.Peakall) (D) writes: D> I've been unable to persuade my sysadmin to make the movemail routine D> setuid because they believe it will compromise system security. I D> assume that they are referring to the bug that I seem to remember D> being described in Clifford Stoll's book `The Cukoo's Egg'. We have D> version 18.58.1 for berkeley unix. Is this still a problem? Movemail should not be installed setuid root. Rather it should be setgid mail (and your mail files should be writable by group mail). By the way, I have sometimes had problems with mail disappearing when my disk quota was exceeded. I use VM so I don't know if it is VM's problem or movemail's problem, but the movemail from /usr/mail/piet to INBOX.CRASH caused the mail to be lost completely. Anybodey know how this is caused? -- Piet* van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands. Telephone: +31 30 531806 Uucp: uunet!mcsun!ruuinf!piet Telefax: +31 30 513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6829,99549db785c0b451,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf6829,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-01-29 10:14:41 PST Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sun4nl!ruuinf!piet From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Subject: Re: emacs directory missing? Sender: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Message-ID: <1993Jan29.124627.25947@cs.ruu.nl> In-Reply-To: dhsu@tog-1g.hac.com (Dave Hsu) Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1993 12:46:27 GMT Distribution: gnu Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) References: <9301261610.AA12417@hac2arpa> Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Lines: 20