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Re: 8.3 should not run outbox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Wed May 26 13:19:19 1999
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To: belmonte@MIT.EDU (Matthew Belmonte)
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU (Tester? But I...)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 May 1999 23:14:05 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 13:19:06 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> 8.3 beta appears to be trying to run some part of IRIX's OutBox package when a
> user logs in. (belmonte.outbox was automatically created in my home directory.)
This gets created by the "firsttime" facility, invoked by Xsession.dt,
which does supposedly necessary set-up the first time a user logs in after
an OS install or upgrade. The same thing occurred under 8.2/6.3. Since
this includes necessary conversions of the user's desktop files, we don't
want to remove this facility; we would have to replace or special-case the
outbox firsttime script.
Since firsttime records in your .desktop directory when a program has been
run, it should work to simply remove the file, at least until IRIX 6.6
comes out.
> I assume that this is an overlooked vestige of OutBox and that the bulk of the
> OutBox software is not in fact running -- unless IRIX 6.5 is very different
> from IRIX 6.2, OutBox is a security problem.
The user outbox is accessed through a web server, which we have config'ed
off.
Bob
