Re: [ProgSoc] Pine

[Anand Kumria <wildfire@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 12:46:40PM +1000, Nicholas FitzRoy-Dale wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I have investigated Pine a little more thoroughly.
> 
> Firstly, the Pine on Ftoomsh *is* a security risk. It is running setgid
> mail, in contradiction to the Pine faq at
> 
> http://www.washington.edu/pine/faq/sysadmins.html
> 
> Also, it is a very old version of Pine.

It is a safe and secure version of Pine.

> I also recommend that I administer Pine on Progsoc's systems. Assuming I am
> given control over it, I am convinced that I can reasonably accept
> responsibility for any security concerns for the system as a whole.

/usr/local/wzdd has been created for you. You are the owner.

Once you've installed pine there let me know and I'll fixup the /usr/local/bin
symlinks.

Anand

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