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Date:      Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:51:04 +0100
From:      Frank Steinborn <frank@ircnow.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IMAP-UW Security question
Message-ID:  <20051214035104.GA27949@scott.blazing.de>
In-Reply-To: <439F9533.5030002@sbcglobal.net>
References:  <439F9533.5030002@sbcglobal.net>

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Jose Borquez wrote:
> SECURITY REPORT:
>      This port has installed the following binaries which execute with
>      increased privileges.
> /usr/local/libexec/mlock
> 
> What can I do to minimize this security risk?  Do I create an mlock user?

In fact, every port that installs a suid-binary will show this warning.
Creating a user won't help, mlock will run as root (that is what it's
about). Just keep the port up-to-date and it's ok.

Frank



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