On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:08:17AM +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> + Scott Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> | Harald Hanche-Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> | | You should look at the permissions on
> | | qmail-queue (should be -rws--x--x I think).
> |
> | Like the installation instruction say,
> | make check
>
> Yup.
>
> Furthermore, it just occured to me that process tracing and executing
> suid programs usually don't go together. So when qmail-send, running
> as qmails, has tracing turned on and tries to exec qmail-queue (which
> is suid qmailq), something will break. I think it's reasonable for
> the suid program to run, albeit with tracing turned off, but maybe
> linux just refuses to run the program instead, and that is what we saw
> in Fred's case.
Yes, it will refuse to run it.
Greetz, Peter
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