From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jason Molenda <jsm@cygnus.com>
To: nobody@sourceware.cygnus.com
Cc: gnats-prs@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gnats/24
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 01:34:00 -0000
Message-id: <19991110093400.29038.qmail@sourceware.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-q4/msg00048.html
List-Id: <gnats-prs.sourceware.org>

The following reply was made to PR gnats/24; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Molenda <jsm@cygnus.com>
To: Klaus Muth <muth@hagos.de>
Cc: gnats-gnats@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: gnats/24
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 01:27:16 -0800

 On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 09:24:00AM -0000, Klaus Muth wrote:
 
 >  The offending Program is smrsh: It is used in modern sendmail distributions
 >  for secure executing of "| blah" aliases.
 >  It seems, that queue-pr is not considered as secure (because of the
 >  s-bit maybe) and smrsh refuses to execute it.
 
 Thanks for the information.  Please do send along any further information
 if you find it.  I use qmail on the sourceware.cygnus.com site so I'm
 afraid I can't provide much help with this one.
 
 I suppose we should put together some kind of FAQs for GNATS; this
 would definitely be high on the list if it is a problem people will have
 with default sendmail installations.
 
 Jason
 Free the Software!