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Date:      Thu, 31 Dec 1998 12:31:48 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        committers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid, gid required. 
Message-ID:  <199812311931.MAA00653@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 31 Dec 1998 10:32:29 PST." <199812311832.KAA01002@hub.freebsd.org> 
References:  <199812311832.KAA01002@hub.freebsd.org>  <199812311807.KAA27750@hub.freebsd.org> 

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In message <199812311832.KAA01002@hub.freebsd.org> "Jonathan
M. Bresler" writes: 
:   2. "new security holes and bugs are being found every day"  is
:      false.   the only "security holes and bugs" found recently are
:      along the lines of "world writeable directories are bad".

If they are being found everyday, they aren't making it to bugtraq.  A
whole class of problems exist with the world writable directories, but
it appears that a small, setgid program is going to close that void.
I've not seen any other security related problems for postfix.  And
I've been looking closely...

Warner

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