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Re: HylaFax



* Brian May (bam@debian.org) [030506 06:05]:
> On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 05:06:48PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > It does have some problems though, eg. spooling of outgoing faxes in
> > > secure manner by multile users has not been thought out properly at all.

> > That's solved with mgetty-1.1.30 (as soon as it works, I expect it
> > next week in unstable).
 
> I am not sure, what has changed to fix this in 1.1.30?

I _am_ sure, see the changelog. faxspool has now a suid user helper
programm that manages permissions (like at other places, e.g.
injecting e-mail etc). No code is executed as root for sending faxes
any more.



Cheers,
Andi
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