Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 08:44:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> To: trost@cloud.rain.com (Bill Trost) Cc: tbalfe@tioga.com, security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail Message-ID: <199605060644.IAA23833@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <m0uGIS5-00002MC@cloud.rain.com> from Bill Trost at "May 5, 96 10:03:15 pm"
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It seems that Bill Trost said: > However, if the sendmail is not doing any local delivery, then Sendmail never does local delivery itself. It always pass the mail to mail.local or procmail... > You might get away with making sendmail only setgid to a user > capable of writing the files in /var/mail, but that gets really > strange and you still lose deliveries to pipes. Won't make a difference. Sendmail in CURRENT is already not setgid anymore as the method of getting the load avg is now sysctl(3). > WARNING: I have not tried this with sendmail, but have successfully > run smail non-root on a machine with no local mailboxes. Smail does local delivery itself if I remember well (I've switched to sendmail since 8.2...). -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #14: Tue Apr 30 21:08:35 MET DST 1996
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