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Date:      Wed, 8 Jan 1997 09:38:45 +0100 (MET)
From:      Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com (Guido van Rooij)
To:        moke@fools.ecpnet.com (Jimbo Bahooli)
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail running non-root SUCCESS!
Message-ID:  <199701080838.JAA06611@bsd.lss.cp.philips.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970107204204.1023A-100000@fools.ecpnet.com> from Jimbo Bahooli at "Jan 7, 97 09:01:32 pm"

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> Other notes, i believe all .forward and related files need to be readable
> by the user daemon. I also recommend using tcp_wrappers for logging
> because in /var/log/maillog the relay will show up as localhost because of
> the redirection.
> 
> Any comments?

Yes. A program in a .forward will need to be executed under uid user. How
is sendmail going to do that if it is not suid root?

-Guido



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