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Date:      Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:49:42 +1100 (EST)
From:      proff@suburbia.net
To:        Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com (Guido van Rooij)
Cc:        security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sendmail running non-root SUCCESS!
Message-ID:  <19970108094942.382.qmail@suburbia.net>
In-Reply-To: <199701080838.JAA06611@bsd.lss.cp.philips.com> from Guido van Rooij at "Jan 8, 97 09:38:45 am"

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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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-Julian <proff@iq.org>



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