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Re: "setuid(UID)" and "chmod 4550" misbehaving



On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 11:51:03PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
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> Hmm.  I am part of the cyrus-sasl maintenance team and we are
> desperately trying to get away from the current packages since they have
> essentially been unmaintained for over two years.  We just uploaded the

But would I be correct in saying that they are going into Etch?

> new 2.1.22 packages to experimental about 24 hours ago.  Anyhow, on my

And would I be correct in saying that these are not going to be in Etch?

> system, /etc/sasldb2 has mode 660 and ownership root:sasl.  Though, I
> don't use cyrus for mail anymore since having switched to courier.

So YOUR version, not his appears to be working. Would it make
sense/possible to 'backport' it, if the older version is bound for etch?

> 
> Anyhow, I seem to recall that cyrus was in group sasl or you had to add
> to it manually since it was a security risk.
> 
> Out of curiousity, what/who is user wwwrun and where did it come from?
> 

I have never seen 'wwwrun' but then I dont use cyrus.

My message was just ment to get a bug reported, if that would help
improve the old version.

cheers,
Kev
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