On Jan 15, 11:38, Philip Guenther wrote:
Subject: Re: Procmail from the aliases file? (again)
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Procmail _will_ follow symlinks from /etc/procmailrcs/whatever, but whoever
makes the link needs to be careful: the file will be processed as the
owner of the _symlink_ *not* the owner of the underlying file.
That's good to know since many file copying strategies don't preserve
symlink ownership when creating the target as root, such as `ufsrestore'
on Solaris 2. Others do, like Solaris 2's and newer versions of GNU
`tar'. Relying on the ownership of a symlink is foolish, and a security
buglet in `procmail' if indeed what you say is true (I'm too lazy to
check right now).
-sjk
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Scott J. Kramer
UNIX Software Consultant
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