Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 18:09:56 +0400 From: "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su> To: adam <adam@math.tau.ac.il>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/cron/cron do_command.c Message-ID: <SHq2JZl8d6@astral.msk.su> In-Reply-To: <199504131217.PAA21237@lune.math.tau.ac.il>; from adam at Thu, 13 Apr 1995 15:17:00 %2B0300 (GMT%2B0300) References: <199504131217.PAA21237@lune.math.tau.ac.il>
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In message <199504131217.PAA21237@lune.math.tau.ac.il> adam writes: >My suggestion is not to run Sendmail as root. If you want, you can >``verify'' MAILTO, but IMHO, such a fix is begging to fail, because >you need to start studying Sendmail and seeing what wrongs it can do >running as root. Like, the obvious fix of searching for ``-'' fails >for people who mail ``cron-people''. This complex fix is really unneded and breaks many things. Only check *mailto == '-' needed. Any other argument is treated as normal address and nothing wrong hapens in sending to it from root. It is equivalent to login as root and send mail to somebody. It is way just I fix it in -current. -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849
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