Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 18:00:29 -0800 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Todd C. Miller": sendmail changes in OpenBSD 2.4 Message-ID: <199811210200.SAA28322@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> ""Todd C. Miller": sendmail changes in OpenBSD 2.4" (Nov 15, 2:10pm)
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} To: announce@openbsd.org } Subject: sendmail changes in OpenBSD 2.4 } Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 14:49:25 -0700 } From: "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com> } Sender: owner-announce@openbsd.org } } In 2.4, /usr/libexec/mail.local is no longer setuid, to prevent its } abuse by users (trivial mail forgery, filling up /var/mail, etc). } } If you are upgrading from a previous version of OpenBSD you will } need to either regenerate your sendmail.cf with an OSTYPE of "openbsd" } instead of "bsd4.4" or edit the sendmail.cf directly and in the } line that begins with Mlocal, change the "rmn9" to "rmn9S". This is not compatible with the RunAsUser sendmail option, which provides some protection against sendmail exploits. --- Truck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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