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  There have been comments about permissions used to invoke programs,
and how they are derived from various forms of aliases.

rob@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP (Rob Vaughn,302 Thurston Hall,50637,2730428) writes:
>Our sendmail is set up like this:
>
>-rwsr-xr-x  1 root     bin        360049 Dec 11 00:12 /usr/lib/sendmail
>   ^          ^^^^
>Note setuid to 'root'.
>
>We have an alias set up as such to save mail message in a file:
>
>catmsgs: "|/bin/cat >> /c/src/documents/msgs"
>
>which had the following permissions:
>
>-rw-rw----  1 root   mscadm       9258 Jan  5 12:57 /c/src/documents/msgs

  I wonder, why this complex 'prog' mailer usage ?
Defining alias as:
	catmsgs: "/c/src/documents/msgs"
there would not be any problems relating to the peculiarities of 'prog'
mailer.

  If course, if you are looking for something else -- for example
writing a mail-based server program, you do need more complex approaches,
like  deliver.

>Thanks,
>Rob
>-- 
>Rob Vaughn, Fugitive Systems Guy
>Mat. Sci. Center Computing, Cornell University
>rob@msc.cornell.edu - rob@crnlmsc2.bitnet

	/Matti Aarnio <mea@utu.fi>