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Re: setuid procmail?

1999-06-25 14:15:29
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Mark Tiramani wrote:

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. 

The current incarnation of the sanitizer requires you to do a
DROPPRIVS=YES before calling the sanitizer script. This is the only
change you need to make.

I am working on refinements that include relaxing that particular
annoying requirement. 

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