From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jul 25 13:10:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA27928 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 13:10:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA27919 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 13:10:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.eu.org [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA13533; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 22:10:20 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id WAA29677; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 22:09:49 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.Alpha.5/keltia-uucp-2.8) id WAA14769; Thu, 25 Jul 1996 22:00:01 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199607252000.WAA14769@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 22:00:01 +0200 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: mike@networx.ie Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Bugs) Subject: Re: sendmail is suid root -- correct? In-Reply-To: ; from Michael Ryan on Jul 24, 1996 22:28:49 +0000 References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.37 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Michael Ryan: > Is it correct that sendmail should be suid-root? Yes. If you want ot restrict the queue, try to add the following in your whatever.mc file and re-m4 it. define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS',`restrictmailq,noexpn,noreceipts,restrictqrun')dnl It may be specific to 8.7.*. If you're still running the 8.6.12 that came with FreeBSD 2.1.0 then upgrade as soon as you can to 8.7.5. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #16: Sun Jul 21 13:26:53 MET DST 1996