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- From: nsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
- Subject: Re: Running Metamail as root
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 12:01:15 GMT
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- Well, there was a concern that running metamail as root could lead to
- unanticipated security problems via the mailcap file, but so far I don't
- really know of any way for that to happen, and I'm thinking of
- getting rid of this feature in future versions anyway. I see no real harm
- in Gary's suggestion. -- NB
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