Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!ncar!oddjob!mimsy!chris From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Is GNU Cause of Security Problems??? Message-ID: <11500@mimsy.UUCP> Date: 14 May 88 19:21:09 GMT References: <8805102131.AA00798@icst-cmr.arpa> <2086@rtech.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 9 [discussion of holes in movemail] Note that if you are running 4.3BSD, you should define MAIL_USE_FLOCK and that the resulting program should not be setuid. The MAIL_USE_FLOCK code was done here (by Don Hopkins, prodded by me; we were running 4.2BSD here then, but we had already modified mail to use flock().) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris