From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 6 09:46:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA24011 for security-outgoing; Mon, 6 May 1996 09:46:20 -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 JAA23791 for ; Mon, 6 May 1996 09:43:41 -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 SAA04697 ; Mon, 6 May 1996 18:42:21 +0200 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id SAA08160 ; Mon, 6 May 1996 18:42:30 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.7.5/keltia-uucp-2.7) id IAA23833; Mon, 6 May 1996 08:44:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199605060644.IAA23833@keltia.freenix.fr> Subject: Re: sendmail To: trost@cloud.rain.com (Bill Trost) Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 08:44:11 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: tbalfe@tioga.com, security@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from Bill Trost at "May 5, 96 10:03:15 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 Bill Trost said: > However, if the sendmail is not doing any local delivery, then Sendmail never does local delivery itself. It always pass the mail to mail.local or procmail... > You might get away with making sendmail only setgid to a user > capable of writing the files in /var/mail, but that gets really > strange and you still lose deliveries to pipes. Won't make a difference. Sendmail in CURRENT is already not setgid anymore as the method of getting the load avg is now sysctl(3). > WARNING: I have not tried this with sendmail, but have successfully > run smail non-root on a machine with no local mailboxes. Smail does local delivery itself if I remember well (I've switched to sendmail since 8.2...). -- 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