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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 1996 01:16:52 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        mpp@mpp.minn.net (Mike Pritchard)
Cc:        dhawk@netcom.com, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Not Exactly a Bug, but a Crack
Message-ID:  <199601290016.BAA04639@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601282144.PAA02088@mpp.minn.net> from "Mike Pritchard" at Jan 28, 96 03:44:57 pm

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As Mike Pritchard wrote:
> 
> Sendmail is normally installed mode 6555, owner root, group kmem.
> I have no idea what it needs kmem access for.

Most likely, for the traditional method of getting the load average.
This is no longer necessary for FreeBSD-2, since it could be obtained
by sysconfig.

Perhaps we can remove the setgid bit?
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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