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setuid procmail?

1999-06-25 11:30:24
Hi,

I've just set up John Hardin's html-trap.procmail (thanks John :)) and first 
attempts failed 
because the -e flag to perl was refused on suid grounds. I checked (never 
looked before) and 
sure enough procmail was suid. It's a default Slackware setup as far as 
/usr/bin/procmail goes.

I'm using dot locking.
/var/spool/mail is drwxrwxrwt
both the mailboxes and the .lock files are  -rw-------  and owned by  uid.group

Question is does procmail need to be suid in this setup?? ... and if not why 
would Slackware 
install it that way?

I have removed the s bits and tested locking and delivery but I'm still a bit 
jumpy as I've had 
problems with dot locking mailboxes before.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mark

Mark Tiramani
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