[imp] Strange sendmail activity associated with imp

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck@horde.org
Tue, 30 Jan 2001 22:16:52 -0500


Quoting Chris Crowley <ccrowley@tulane.edu>:

> It seems that imp is calling two instances of sendmail for each message. One
> run as root, and on running as nobody.  Can you confirm this is the normal
> behavior?

It's certainly not normal - imp shouldn't be able to run sendmail as root, 
unless your webserver runs as root, in which case you've got bigger problems...

-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
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