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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: elm 2.4 and FreeBSD Date: 8 Jul 1996 20:49:41 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4rrs95$1eu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <jmanley-2906960000510001@fw42.metronet.com> <4r3peo$s7j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <31D6C791.4746@me.pvamu.edu> <4rc156$crm@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4rgt5c$scg@news3.realtime.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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.elm:19683 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:23112 chip@unicom.com (Chip Rosenthal) wrote: > >Because it requires elm to run setgid > > Not if you set the sticky bit on the mail spool. That's even more ugly. Don't do it, there are known races that can be abused. (At least, that's what the security officers had to say about it... ;) -- 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. ;-)