spamassassin a possible security risk?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Tue Oct 19 02:27:19 UTC 2004


On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 09:13:20PM -0500, John Thompson wrote:
> Try "grep spamd /var/log/maillog" and see if your spamd is reverting to
> "nobody" when it runs.

:) Either you're presenting a subtle socratic argument here, or you didn't
try this yourself -- if you did, you'd see that it is setting its id to that
of the calling user when it runs. Even better.


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