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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