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Re: [Q] Permission and authentication (or Who is the landlord?) (fwd)

2002-03-11 03:38:26
At 12:15 2002-03-11 +0200, Udi Mottelo did say:
        The procmail man say about "-d":
[snip]

Please read what it says about '-m', notably the stuff about how all the following arguments are treated as rcfiles...

        I understand, if procmail will setuid to the intended recipients
        then the owner of the proccess IS the recipient.

Guess what - if you're running something from within /etc/procmailrc, you're STILL running it as root, unless you dropprivs WITHIN that script.


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