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Date:      Mon, 06 Jul 1998 23:00:46 +0100
From:      Manar Hussain <manar@ivision.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Majordomo
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19980706230046.007fb420@stingray.ivision.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980706095235.7301D-100000@mirage.nlink.com.b r>

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At 09:55 06/07/98 -0300, Paulo Fragoso wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Are there any way to make majordomo work without suid root?

Someone suggested this was a bogus questions as majordomo doesn't run
setuid - a wrapper that calls it does. I suspect that was an unintentional
question dodge - you'd still need to run *a* setuid program to run that
majordomo installation including the wrapper.

Using Exim or qmail instead of sendmail you can run majordomo direct as
user majordom rather than running things through the wrapper. Bear in mind
that the wrapper does more than just set the setuid - it's sets a few
environment vars up too. I can dig out how we did it under Exim if that'd
be considered helpful.

Manar



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