Re: Frivolous forking

[Mate Wierdl]

On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 01:52:02PM -0500, Sam wrote:
> On 22 Dec 1998, D. J. Bernstein wrote:
> 
> > What happens if there's a security hole in getpwnam(), on a UNIX system
> > that allows file giveaways?

I thought the sysadm is supposed to write 9 numbers in a file like

control/ids

and qmail would look up these numbers.  It is the sysadms job to make sure
the numbers are correct.  Would not this minimize the dependence of qmail on
other functions?  

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Mate Wierdl | Dept. of Math. Sciences | University of Memphis