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| author | Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de> | 2007-11-02 20:26:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Nikolaus Schulz <microschulz@web.de> | 2007-11-02 20:26:40 +0000 |
| commit | b2f94206b1d0de36af7688f8139302db94982cae (patch) | |
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Deprecate the old automatic seteuid feature; document this in the manpage and
changelog, and let archivemail spit a warning when it changes the effective user
id.
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diff --git a/archivemail.sgml b/archivemail.sgml index 8efef1a..3ce582e 100644 --- a/archivemail.sgml +++ b/archivemail.sgml @@ -100,6 +100,12 @@ See below for more <application/IMAP/ peculiarities. <Command/archivemail/ has some support for being run as the root user on user mailboxes. When running as root, it will &seteuid; to the owner of the mailbox it is reading, creating any archive files as that user. +<emphasis>Warning:</emphasis> +<!-- I would like to have a <warning> here, but the dsssl stylesheet thinks a + warning need be decorated with a graphic. *sigh* I won't start hacking + dsssl because of this. --> + this automatic seteuid feature is insecure and deprecated. + It will be removed from later versions of <command/archivemail/. </Para> </RefSect1> |