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From: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (Tony L. Hansen)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: EOF without ptys? (GNU)
Message-ID: <2819@pegasus.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 10:10:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: pegasus.2819
Posted: Thu Aug 14 10:10:55 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Aug-86 20:07:34 EDT
References: <1008@bu-cs.bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: hansen@pegasus.UUCP (62545457-Tony L. Hansen;LZ 3B-315;6243)
Organization: AT&T-IS Labs, Lincroft, NJ
Lines: 11
Keywords: rmail, gnumacs, movemail
Summary: mail progs on SYS need setgid, not setuid

< >Is this a common problem with rmail on SysV?  Am I missing something
< >obvious?
< 
< Your problem is that your etc/movemail program probably needs to run
< setuid to something powerful enough to write the mail spool directory.

On System V (and III) machines, mail programs need to be "setgid mail".
Making them setuid creates unnecessary security holes.

					Tony Hansen
					ihnp4!pegasus!hansen