Re: qmail-qread and qmail-qstat as suid root...

[Peter van Dijk]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 05:49:10PM -0700, Sean Chittenden wrote:
>       Only suid or suid & guid?  qmail-qstat and qmail-qread both
> rely on the qmail group to run through the queue.

suid&guid.

>       Here's a quick binary wrapper that I was thinking about using
> that'd run as root, but would only have permission to run if you're in
> the staff or wheel group.  Thoughts?  -sc

Why, again, root?

You really ought to use either the tcpserver or ucspi-unix/ucspi-local
solution that bg proposed.

Greetz, Peter.