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Re: Bug#3189: nvi over-cautious about .exrc?



On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Ian Jackson wrote:

>It is not the business of programs to check the permissions of the
>dotfiles in users' home directories.

I agree.  I chased my tail for quite a while some time back because of
what I recall as procmail's concern over the permissions on my .forward
file.  It didn't complain, it just didn't work as I expected from reading
the docs.



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