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Date:      Sun, 5 May 1996 14:29:00 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
To:        tbalfe@tioga.com (Thomas J Balfe)
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail
Message-ID:  <199605051229.OAA20467@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960504165126.10768B-100000@falcon.tioga.com> from Thomas J Balfe at "May 4, 96 04:53:49 pm"

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It seems that Thomas J Balfe said:
> I have recently compiled sendmail from cert.org. What I want to know, 
> does sendmail have to be mode 4555 to function correctly, or will be 
> function correctly as mode 555? Or even 4111?

As  for running it, 4111 is  the same as 4555.  You need the  setuid bit as
sendmail is switching uids during execution when a user program runs it.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #14: Tue Apr 30 21:08:35 MET DST 1996



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