From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jun 10 19:13:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA10643 for security-outgoing; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 19:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.barrnet.net (mail.barrnet.net [131.119.246.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA10636 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 19:13:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.io.org (post.io.org [198.133.36.6]) by mail.barrnet.net (8.7.5/MAIL-RELAY-LEN) with ESMTP id TAA07080 for ; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 19:13:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zap.io.org (taob@zap.io.org [198.133.36.81]) by post.io.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA28349; Mon, 10 Jun 1996 22:08:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1996 22:09:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: Giles Lean cc: FREEBSD-SECURITY-L Subject: Re: setuid root sendmail vs. mode 1733 /var/spool/mqueue? In-Reply-To: <199606102154.HAA05652@nemeton.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Giles Lean wrote: > > I've not previously thought about running on a shell server; can > sendmail delete the queue files after they're done with the sticky bit > set? I would think so... either the user-owned sendmail process deletes it after it is delivered, or the root-owned 'sendmail -q5m' will do it. That doesn't seem to be the case here though. I see a lot of "Qf" and "df" files building up, but only one "qf" file. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"