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Article #948movemail bug?
From: D.Peakall
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:03
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:03
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I've been unable to persuade my sysadmin to make the movemail routine setuid because they believe it will compromise system security. I assume that they are referring to the bug that I seem to remember being described in Clifford Stoll's book `The Cukoo's Egg'. We have version 18.58.1 for berkeley unix. Is this still a problem? Dale Peakall plyidp@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk
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arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk!plyidpShow Full Headers
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk!plyidp From: plyidp@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (D.Peakall) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Subject: movemail bug? Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:03:56 -0500 Organization: Nottingham University Lines: 11 Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu Distribution: gnu Message-ID: <1993Jan21.112654.6681@cs.nott.ac.uk> Reply-To: "D.Peakall" <plyidp@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Keywords: movemail security