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Date:      Wed, 14 May 1997 13:23:55 -0400
From:      Gary Schrock <root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_2_2
Message-ID:  <3.0.1.32.19970514132355.00707968@eyelab.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19970514111926.DF34579@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <7493.863510486@time.cdrom.com> <19970513071838.JT48650@uriah.heep.sax.de> <7493.863510486@time.cdrom.com>

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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




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