From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Mar 5 1:16:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from marvin.trident-uk.co.uk (mail.trident-uk.co.uk [195.166.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 928BA37B719 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 01:16:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk) Received: from smtp.trident-uk.co.uk (psi-gateway.psi-domain.co.uk [194.207.93.63]) by marvin.trident-uk.co.uk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f259EmG60014; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:14:49 GMT Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 09:14:24 +0000 From: Jamie Heckford To: Chris BeHanna Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail Question Message-ID: <20010305091424.A5921@storm.psi-domain.co.uk> Reply-To: heckfordj@psi-domain.co.uk References: <20010303143635.M3359@storm.psi-domain.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: ; from behanna@zbzoom.net on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 17:56:24 +0000 X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.1 Lines: 30 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2001.03.03 17:56 Chris BeHanna wrote: > On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Jamie Heckford wrote: > > > Quick update, I just set mail.local SUID. > > Why? It works just fine with mode 555. Setting the Sendmail binary to SUID worked, having it in mode 555 did not (see the previous error message) > > > Just wondering, what was the reason for this? Will a > > security vunrability arisin from setting mail.local > > SUID? > > There are always potential vulnerabilities with setuid binaries. > The reduction of setuid binaries to the barest minimum is a good thing. > > -- > Chris BeHanna > Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) > behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net > I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message