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From: garyb@buffnet.net (Gary Bacchetti)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1-R suid problem
Date: 10 Dec 1995 05:35:44 GMT
Organization: BuffNET
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In article <4a7okh$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) says:
>
>shovey@buffnet.net (steve hovey) writes:
>> I ported MMDF to bsd.
>> 
>> The spool dir has chmod 700 with mmdf as owner.
>> 
>> the delivery program, submit, needs to make files in the spool dir
>> 
>> Its cant unless Im in as root, even though the suid bit is set on submit 
>> (4755)
>> 
>> I had to give the mailer group perms to the subdirs and setgroupid submit 
>> to get it to work.
>
>Perhaps the mailer is releasing its suidness too quickly?
>
>I think MMDF originates from the SCO camp, and i suspect the setuid
>model of SCO being rather different from the 4.4BSD one.
>
>-- 


SCO puts it in with their product but its a university of washington 
thing.