Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 20:29:49 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: dv@kis.ru, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, peter@spinner.DIALix.COM, security-officer@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail can't create PID file because of owner permission of /var/run Message-ID: <199703231929.UAA02304@gvr.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <19970323153519.BW27841@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Mar 23, 97 03:35:19 pm"
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J Wunsch wrote: > > safefile() in sendmail/src/util.c goes great lengths to ensure files > are only attempted to be opened if the permissions of the directory > allow this. Anyway, it looks as if it requires any directory to be > world-writeable if the directory is not owned by the owner of the > requesting process -- even if the owner is root. I'm not sure > wheather this is a bug or a feature. The following diff fixes this, > but i'm not 100 % sure wheather this fix is right or not. > Best is to get this patch to Eric Allman. He's *the* person for this kind of stuff. -Guido
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