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Re: getting pre4 to work over here

1995-11-11 03:11:48
At 01:50 PM 11/6/95 +0100, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

[Dallman Ross wrote:]
sh: procmail not available for sendmail programs

Does that have anything to do with the results from Hal's suggestion of

grep Mprog /etc/sendmail.cf
Mprog,  P=/usr/local/etc/smrsh,       F=lsDFM,   S=10, R=20, A=sh -c $u

Yes.  Ask your sysadmin if he can include procmail in the list of
programs that are allowed to be executed by smrsh.

Okay, I did ask, but unfortunately got a negative reply.  Here is a quote of
the answer:

Aus Sicherheitsgruenden ist es nicht moeglich, die Beschraenkungen der
smrsh (Sendmail restricted shell, die nach Empfehlung des CERT die
Vulnerabilitites von sendmail vermeiden soll), zu erweitern.

-- 
Freundliche Gruesse / Kind regards - Matthias Melcher, Tel. +49-6221-56-4523

For those needing a translation,
"As a matter of security it's not possible to extend the smrsh restrictions
(Sendmail restricted shell, used on recommendation of CERT to protect
against sendmail vulnerabilities)."

I suppose I will have to try and go with David Tamkin's kind suggestion for
filter,

          always execute /u/iued/hh0/.dman/bin/procmail

I'll let you know of my progress.

Meanwhile, if anyone would like to compose a retort to the above reply and
send it to me, I'll try to work further at persuading t.p.t.b. to add
procmail to the list.
Dallman Ross

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