From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 14 11:30:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA25942 for current-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 11:30:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA25935 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 11:30:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA27864; Wed, 14 May 1997 12:30:14 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 12:30:14 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199705141830.MAA27864@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Gary Schrock Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_2_2 In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970514132355.00707968@eyelab.msu.edu> References: <7493.863510486@time.cdrom.com> <19970513071838.JT48650@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970514111926.DF34579@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3.0.1.32.19970514132355.00707968@eyelab.msu.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >> dtmail to be suid root?? What about things like popper? > > > >popper is _way_ smaller, basically intelligible, does not provide the > >usual dangerous interfaces of MUAs (like spawning shells etc.). I can > >live with 10 poppers being setuid root, if this saves me from an MUA > >being set[ug]id at all. > > Umm, maybe I'm missing something, but: > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 32768 Mar 3 14:02 popper > > It doesn't look setuid on my machine, and as far as I can tell it's working > perfectly fine. It's effectively running as root, since it's spawned from inetd. Nate