Mailbox vulnerable?
Hongwei Li
hongwei at morpheus.wustl.edu
Mon Jun 28 15:40:18 UTC 2004
> Am Mo, den 28.06.2004 schrieb Hongwei Li um 17:16:
>
>> After I set:
>>
>> # chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail
>> # ls -ld /var/spool/mail*
>> drwxrwxrwt 2 root mail 4096 Jun 28 09:56 /var/spool/mail
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 20 15:02 /var/spool/mailman
>>
>> My SquirrelMail immediately failed and automatically log out with "Login
>> failure error". Then, I checked the system log, and found the
>> followings:
>>
>> Jun 28 09:57:46 morpheus imap(pam_unix)[29850]: authentication failure;
>> logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty= ruser= rhost=127.0.0.1 user=hongwei
>
>> I am afraid that other users will immediately complain to me, so I had
>> to
>> put it back as before, then I can use my squirrelmail.
>>
>> What is wrong? Thanks!
>>
>> Hongwei
>
> Leave the permissions as they are! Use the pine 4.60 RPM by Dag Wieers
> which is made for FC1 and FC2 and contains some patches to cover locking
> issues.
>
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/pine/
>
> Alexander
>
>
Thanks! I will try it.
Hongwei
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