From owner-freebsd-security Mon Nov 16 11:24:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24203 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:24:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from verdi.nethelp.no (verdi.nethelp.no [158.36.41.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA24191 for ; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:24:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthaug@nethelp.no) From: sthaug@nethelp.no Received: (qmail 7112 invoked by uid 1001); 16 Nov 1998 19:24:24 +0000 (GMT) To: marcs@znep.com Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Would this make FreeBSD more secure? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Nov 1998 09:49:04 -0800 (PST)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.05+ on Emacs 19.34.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 20:24:24 +0100 Message-ID: <7110.911244264@verdi.nethelp.no> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > It is easy to say that things don't have to run as root, but for many of > them that just isn't true without losing functionality. > > If sendmail doesn't run as root, you can't deliver user mail to programs. However, there are plenty of users who would still find sendmail useful. (Me, I'm running qmail. But that's another discussion.) Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message