Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:35:13 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: "Pedro J. Lobo" <pjlobo@euitt.upm.es> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does mail.local need to be setuid-root? Message-ID: <64680.925490113@noop.colo.erols.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:47:18 %2B0200." <Pine.OSF.4.05.9904301535330.15810-100000@haddock.euitt.upm.es>
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"Pedro J. Lobo" wrote in message ID <Pine.OSF.4.05.9904301535330.15810-100000@haddock.euitt.upm.es>: > The problem is that you cand send mail to a user that is over quota, and > the system will append the new message to its inbox (located in /var/mail, > as by default). Indeed, root can append data to a file that belongs to a > user that is over quota. Hrm. I thought this had been fixed. Anyhow, a temporary workaround is to use procmail as your local delivery agent. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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