Re: Vulnerability in metamail

Kev (klmitch@MIT.EDU)
Sat, 25 Oct 1997 20:46:58 -0400 (EDT)

> Perhaps the 644 should be something like `expr 666 - \`umask\``.

Well, that directly won't work. Among other things, that's an octal
number:

[starkiller]-[~]-> expr 666 - `umask`
589

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