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Date:      Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:40:35 +0200 (CEST)
From:      A.Leidinger@WJPServer.CS.Uni-SB.de
To:        Anthony Kimball <alk@pobox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: group bits
Message-ID:  <199908061140.NAA01057@work.net.local>
In-Reply-To: <14249.52685.50332.808817@avalon.east>

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On  5 Aug, Anthony Kimball wrote:

> My specific motivation is that everytime I cvsup, I have to patch
> sendmail and ppp to suppress their group-writable-config

/usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README:
---snip---
confUNSAFE_GROUP_WRITES UnsafeGroupWrites
                                        [False] If set, group-writable
                                        :include: and .forward files are
                                        considered "unsafe", that is, programs
                                        and files cannot be directly referenced
                                        from such files.  World-writable files
                                        are always considered unsafe.
---snip---
should do it.

Bye,
Alexander.

-- 
          Hey, it's not like the whole building burned down.

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