[2600] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: MH is big and confusing and it scares me
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri Feb 12 15:43:38 1999
To: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@cygnus.com>
Cc: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 12 Feb 1999 15:43:04 -0500
In-Reply-To: Eric Mumpower's message of Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:38:25 -0500 (EST)
Actually, sendmail.cf, as installed, requires spop and slocal
for local mail delivery. So, yes, we should keep them. I don't
think they need to be setuid, however.
-derek
Eric Mumpower <nocturne@cygnus.com> writes:
>
> > what these programs are supposed to do, or if they are at all useful
> > on an Athena client machine.
>
> spop and slocal are mail-delivery programs used by sendmail on mailhubs to
> insert mail into users's spoolfiles, as I recall. Should be safe to leave
> them non-setuid, if you bother to include them at all.
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