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GID = UID, why? (fwd)

1997-05-29 15:14:00
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Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 12:37:20 -0300 (ADT)
From: Knotwork Admin <root(_at_)knotwork(_dot_)com>
To: Procmail mailinglist <procmail(_at_)Informatik(_dot_)RWTH-Aachen(_dot_)DE>
Subject: GID = UID, why?
Resent-Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 18:09:38 -0300 (ADT)
Resent-From: Knotwork Admin <root(_at_)knotwork(_dot_)com>
Resent-To: Mark Metson <markm(_at_)knotwork(_dot_)com>


I am using Linux 2.0.19.
I compiled procmail-3.11pre6 using gcc 2.7.2
My sendmail is 8.8.something, neither -V, -v nor --version tell me which.

I tried some of the trivally-simple example .procmailrc techniques and am
finding that folders created by procmail have a GID same as the UID. That
could be a gross violation of security. It is also outright weird.

Strangely my webserver (Roxen) does the same thing with CGI scripts.
So it may be somehow to do with the O/S rather than the application?
Roxen people were no help when it happened with Roxen so now its
happening with procmail I thought I'd see if you lot have any clues as to
its cause and its fix.

Blessed Be. -MarkM-

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