mailman/mailman-sendmail.m4

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:22:00 +0200

author
Michael Schloh von Bennewitz <michael@schloh.com>
date
Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:22:00 +0200
changeset 178
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Change unfortunate but partly useful overreaching security tradeoff.
The principle of allocating each running process an individual system
user and group can have security benefits, however maintining a plethora
of users, groups, processes, file modes, file permissions, and even
nonportable file ACLs on a host serving from a hundred processes has
some security disadvantages. This tradeoff is even worse for systems
like OpenPKG which benefit from administration transparency through the
use of minimal system intrusion and only three usage privilege levels.

michael@7 1 dnl
michael@7 2 dnl mailman.m4: Mailman specific local mailer
michael@7 3 dnl
michael@7 4
michael@7 5 MAILER_DEFINITIONS
michael@7 6
michael@7 7 ## Special flags! See:
michael@7 8 ## http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.10/op-sh-5.html#sh-5.4 Note
michael@7 9 ## especially the absence of the "m" and "n" flags. THIS IS IMPORTANT:
michael@7 10 ## mailman handler assumes this behavior to avoid having to know too
michael@7 11 ## much about address parsing and other RFC-2822 mail details.
michael@7 12
michael@7 13 Mmailman, P=@l_prefix@/libexec/mailman/mail/mailman-sendmail, F=rDFMhlqSu, U=@l_nusr@:@l_ngrp@,
michael@7 14 S=EnvFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL,
michael@7 15 A=mailman-sendmail $h $u
michael@7 16

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