From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Jan 28 16:22:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA13731 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 16:22:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA13694 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 1996 16:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id BAA27239; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:21:53 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA13357; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:21:52 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id BAA04639; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:16:53 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601290016.BAA04639@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Not Exactly a Bug, but a Crack To: mpp@mpp.minn.net (Mike Pritchard) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:16:52 +0100 (MET) Cc: dhawk@netcom.com, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199601282144.PAA02088@mpp.minn.net> from "Mike Pritchard" at Jan 28, 96 03:44:57 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Mike Pritchard wrote: > > Sendmail is normally installed mode 6555, owner root, group kmem. > I have no idea what it needs kmem access for. Most likely, for the traditional method of getting the load average. This is no longer necessary for FreeBSD-2, since it could be obtained by sysconfig. Perhaps we can remove the setgid bit? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)