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Date:      Wed, 14 May 1997 12:30:14 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Gary Schrock <root@eyelab.psy.msu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RELENG_2_2
Message-ID:  <199705141830.MAA27864@rocky.mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970514132355.00707968@eyelab.msu.edu>
References:  <7493.863510486@time.cdrom.com> <19970513071838.JT48650@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970514111926.DF34579@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3.0.1.32.19970514132355.00707968@eyelab.msu.edu>

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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.

It's effectively running as root, since it's spawned from inetd.


Nate



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