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Re: .procmailrc dir permissions

2002-04-30 14:56:06
At 14:10 2002-04-30 -0500, Justin Heimburger did say:

My question is why has procmail become more strict with regards to these
permissions, and why was this change made?

Uh, because they were security issues, and good software addresses security issues by fixing them not by quietly ignoring them.

I read through the history file, but the only mention of permissions was
in relation to a problem processing .procmailrc's in 700 dirs.

Specific mention of .procmailrc security for versions in the range which you are talking about can be found in 3.11pre3 and v3.12. They seem germaine.

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