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Re: [linux-security] Re: Possible bufferoverflow condition in
From: fox () mailhost rsn hp com (David DeSimone)
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 17:54:55 -0500
Digital Dreamer <dreamer () garrison inetcan net> wrote:
On the same note, after all the problems with sendmail, why does it still need suid to operate?
Sendmail needs to be root in order to become another user, for example, to run any pipe programs indicated in the .forward file. It wouldn't do to have those programs run as the user who was sending the mail. Naturally, some other scheme could probably be concocted to avoid having sendmail immediately be root, or to have some other daemon perform final delivery if the uid needs to be changed, but that's going to probably be a major design change. -- David DeSimone | "The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: fox () convex hp com | that there is no man really clever who has not Hewlett-Packard | found that he is stupid." -- Gilbert K. Chesterson Convex Division | PGP: 5B 47 34 9F 3B 9A B0 0D AB A6 15 F1 BB BE 8C 44
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- Re: Possible bufferoverflow condition in lpr, xterm and xload Wolfram Schmidt (Aug 13)
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- Re: Possible bufferoverflow condition in lpr, xterm and xload Jeff Uphoff (Aug 13)
- Re: [linux-security] Re: Possible bufferoverflow condition in Mike Jackson (Aug 14)
- Re: [linux-security] Re: Possible bufferoverflow condition in Digital Dreamer (Aug 14)
- Re: [linux-security] Re: Possible bufferoverflow condition in David DeSimone (Aug 14)
- Re: [linux-security] Re: Possible bufferoverflow condition in Vidar Madsen (Aug 15)
- Re: [linux-security] Re: Possible bufferoverflow condition in Shaun Lowry (Aug 16)
- Re: [linux-security] Re: Possible bufferoverflow condition in Mike Jackson (Aug 14)
- The buggy realpath.c Alan Cox (Aug 14)
- Re: Possible bufferoverflow condition in lpr, xterm and xload Nick Andrew (Aug 20)