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Date:      Mon,  9 Dec 96 16:03:20 -0600
From:      Ben Black <black@squid.gage.com>
To:        cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca
Cc:        bmk@pobox.com, security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Running sendmail non-suid 
Message-ID:  <9612092203.AA16391@squid.gage.com>
In-Reply-To: <199612092204.OAA18326@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>
References:  <199612092204.OAA18326@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca>

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> On the surface this appears be the case, however if you NFS export a
> filesystem that contains files owned by the smtp user, especially to a
> system where someone else has root, you open your system to root
> compromise.

ah, NFS.  say no more.  i thought you meant in the context of a single machine.


b3n



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