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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: mail(1) security tightened slightly
Message-ID: <4365@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 17:56:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: utzoo.4365
Posted: Tue Sep 25 17:56:14 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 17:56:14 EDT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Mail(1) has been modified very slightly to guard against a possible
security hole:  a partial breach of security might have been possible
if mail(1) ran setgroupid-root (which it doesn't here).  Mail now copes
properly with this case.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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