Re: mutt-1.3.24-3 complains of read-only /var/mail/foo
On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:00:58AM -0900, Christopher S. Swingley wrote:
> > A quick search of the debian-devel archive didn't turn up
> > anything about this, but I might have goofed the search.
> > Anyway, mutt-1.3.24-2 works well enough for me, but 1.3.24-3
> > won't let me modify /var/mail/foo.
>
> # chown root:mail /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock
> # chmod 2755 /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock
>
> $ ls -l /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock
> -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock
This bug is fixed in mutt-1.3.25-1, and besides this minor glitch,
it's important to upgrade to 1.3.25 because it fixes a rather
serious security hole.
Jan
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