Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:26:57 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> To: bmk@pobox.com Cc: marcs@znep.com, cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca, bmk@pobox.com, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running sendmail non-suid Message-ID: <199612102126.WAA17440@gvr.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <199612102027.MAA14200@itchy.atlas.com> from Brant Katkansky at "Dec 10, 96 12:27:53 pm"
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> > I don't believe that running sendmail from inetd will be a viable option - > anticipated load is too high. What I will likely do is run it non-suid, > but start it as root, and give up root privelege as soon as the port is > bound. I'd rather not muck around in the kernel. I thought there is an option nowadays that does exactly this: O RunAsUser=<username> -Guido
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