Stevan,
I my case, I am running it with qmail with 0755 mode as described at
http://dspamwiki.expass.de/Installation/Qmail and I am not using WebUI.
Thanks.
Sunday, December 20, 2009, 7:22:42 PM, you wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:11:49 +0200
> Ismail YENIGUL <ismail.yeni...@endersys.com.tr> wrote:
>> Merhaba Stevan,
>>
> Merhaba Arkadaş,
>> > On Paul's setup (he allowed me to look at it over SSH) I see the following:
>> > -r-s--x--- 1 root mail 163K Dec 17 16:26 /usr/local/bin/dspam
>>
>> > Is that normal on FreeBSD? The dspam binary is setuid to root?
>> > Would it not be better (from a security viewpoint) to set it setgid?
>> It is defined by DSPAM_MODE value in Makefile by Ion-Mihai
>>
>> DSPAM_MODE?= 4510
>>
>> From dspam/configure file
>> --with-dspam-mode=MODE Set access mode for dspam binary, default 2510
>>
>> Do you want me to set it 2510 by default?
>>
> What I want is not so important. I just try to be constructive. It
> does not have to be 2510. It can be whatever you want/need it to be.
> Are you running DSPAM on your setup with 4510? How do you run the
> Web UI? Are you not concerned that a potential flaw in DSPAM could
> have bigger negative impact on your system if you run the binary in
> setuid? Already setgid is not always the best thing (security wise)
> but setuid to root is even a bigger issue (at least that's what I think).
> At least you don't have that binary world executable. That's a good thing
> (IMHO).
> Why do you think setuid to root is needed? Have you any special
> case where you can't without setuid?
>> Thanks.
>>
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