Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!ron From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Doing the unexpected Message-ID: Date: 28 May 88 13:26:00 GMT References: <14650@brl-adm.ARPA> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 12 This is amusing. First, it's unclear to me why your system is set up so that UNPRIVELEDGED users can grab control of the resources required to make these systems programs work. Generally programs need to be running as root to make this work. Programs should generally not be setuid root when they are going to be started from rc, as rc is executed as root to begin with. sendmail is a sticky problem. For some harebrained reason sendmail is setuid root on BSD systems and will allow you to use set daemon mode even if you are only effectively root. Oh well. -Ron