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Date:      Mon, 16 Nov 1998 11:43:35 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "Todd C. Miller": sendmail changes in OpenBSD 2.4 
Message-ID:  <199811161843.LAA05055@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Nov 1998 14:10:34 PST." <21235.911167834@zippy.cdrom.com> 
References:  <21235.911167834@zippy.cdrom.com>  

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In message <21235.911167834@zippy.cdrom.com> "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes:
: Hmmm.  This sounds like a rather large user hit to take, but one less
: suid root executable (and an end to the other problems described
: below) also has strong appeal.  Comments?

Sounds like a good idea to me.  Setuid mail.local has always struck me
as a bad idea, especially one that was world executable.

Warner

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