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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:10:01 +0100 (BST)
From:      Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
To:        "Kasper (swebase)" <kasper@swebase.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Rmuser problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0110101256270.72017-100000@ury.york.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <001401c1517b$9ca3eae0$f02750d5@swebasekasper>

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On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Kasper (swebase) wrote:

> Matching password entry:
>
> majordomo:1Yohj.aE4MT0Y:1016:1016::0:0:MajorDomo:/home/majordomo:/bin/csh

Can't help you with your problem - but you probably should not be running
majordomo as UID 0. The perl scripts are setuid, and there are some pretty
large security hoels in it that can give any local user the ability to
execute code as the majordomo user, and as far as I am aware, quite a few
of these problems and others are still outstanding.

Give majordomo a different UID, there is no need for it to be UID 0
anyway. It does need to be in the daemon group however, and it is not easy
to make it fully secure.

Gavin


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