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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-10-18 15:46:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 1996-10-18 15:46:18 +0000 |
| commit | 30ac0cb6ccf032c44c08beda24a3d23472cb4f1a (patch) | |
| tree | 3cd96d7f561430e92bb4411e8cc5e48d182c1bee /NEWS | |
| parent | aec15b99bf6b340227895ecfa6136e9d638c701a (diff) | |
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Use seteuid(2) during MDA execution.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=346
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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ features -- * POP3 UID support really works now. I make rude noises at the POP3 mavens who forced us to this with RFC1725, but thank Al Longyear <longyear@sii.com> - for fixing and verifying my slightly buggy implemntation. + for fixing and verifying my slightly buggy implementation. * Kerberos support ditto. Thanks to Chris Hanson <cph@martigny.mit.edu> for this feature. @@ -22,6 +22,10 @@ features -- * You may use C-like escapes to embed non-printables in passwords and other strings. Fetchmail -V will display them in a printable form. +* Program now tries to set itself to the ID of the local user before + running an MDA, and reset to root afterwards. This will work on + any system with seteuid(2), including Linux and the BSDs. + bugs -- * Default user name to deliver to is now the calling user, unless |