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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!newsroom.utas.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1-R suid problem Date: 7 Dec 1995 22:08:17 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4a7okh$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4a2gjm$5sq@buffnet2.buffnet.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) writes: > I ported MMDF to bsd. > > The spool dir has chmod 700 with mmdf as owner. > > the delivery program, submit, needs to make files in the spool dir > > Its cant unless Im in as root, even though the suid bit is set on submit > (4755) > > I had to give the mailer group perms to the subdirs and setgroupid submit > to get it to work. Perhaps the mailer is releasing its suidness too quickly? I think MMDF originates from the SCO camp, and i suspect the setuid model of SCO being rather different from the 4.4BSD one. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)