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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