Re: Capabilities - call for help

Andreas Barth (aba@muenchen.pro-bahn.org)
6 May 1999 11:44:26 GMT

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On 6 May 1999 06:41:45 +0200, Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de> wrote:
> On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 04:39:09AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
>> In article <19990502235853.A724@bug.ucw.cz> you wrote:
>>> For example - sendmail is currently setuid root. I do not like it, but
>>> there's no easy way to find out what capabilities sendmail really
>>> needs.

>> Umm.. sure..read the docu. You dont need to run sendmail as root.

> Bind a priviledged port?

Either with the right capability or with a patch that allows
non-root programms to bind to priviliged ports.

Andi

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