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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.sprintlink.net!buffnet2.buffnet.net!usenet 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 Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4adrjg$507@buffnet2.buffnet.net> References: <4a2gjm$5sq@buffnet2.buffnet.net> <4a7okh$jns@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: shovey@buffnet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: fppp22.buffnet.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.2 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.