From owner-freebsd-security Sun May 5 09:41:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA25953 for security-outgoing; Sun, 5 May 1996 09:41:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA25942 for ; Sun, 5 May 1996 09:41:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id SAA13790 ; Sun, 5 May 1996 18:41:46 +0200 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id SAA03792 ; Sun, 5 May 1996 18:41:55 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.5/keltia-uucp-2.7) id OAA20467; Sun, 5 May 1996 14:29:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199605051229.OAA20467@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: sendmail To: tbalfe@tioga.com (Thomas J Balfe) Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 14:29:00 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: security@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Thomas J Balfe at "May 4, 96 04:53:49 pm" X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#1948 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL16 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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