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From: Gary Schrock <root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu>
Subject: Re: RELENG_2_2
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>>    dtmail to be suid root??  What about things like popper?
>
>popper is _way_ smaller, basically intelligible, does not provide the
>usual dangerous interfaces of MUAs (like spawning shells etc.).  I can
>live with 10 poppers being setuid root, if this saves me from an MUA
>being set[ug]id at all.

Umm, maybe I'm missing something, but:
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  bin  32768 Mar  3 14:02 popper

It doesn't look setuid on my machine, and as far as I can tell it's working
perfectly fine.


Gary Schrock
root@eyelab.msu.edu