Subject: re: procmail package?
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 08/08/1998 13:58:43
: i know *why* you _might_ want to make it setuid. but why is this the
: default? hell, don't make my system possibly more insecure without
: even telling you're doing it or give me a chance to disable it!
chmod -s /usr/pkg/bin/{procmail,lockfile}. Your choice; that's all you
have to do.
sure. if i knew. i saw that it was setuid when i did an otherwise
random `ls -l' on /usr/pkg/bin/procmail. of course i have done the
above now...
As I explained to Mr. Woods, our default MDA requires the setuid for use of
procmail to do anything other than a ~/.forward filter.
fine, that's great. that's your site. your local administration
decision. not mine.
don't make that decision for me without telling me. or without giving
me a knob to disable it (once and forever).