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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk!plyidp
  2. From: plyidp@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk (D.Peakall)
  3. Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
  4. Subject: movemail bug?
  5. Date: 21 Jan 1993 18:03:56 -0500
  6. Organization: Nottingham University
  7. Lines: 11
  8. Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
  9. Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
  10. Distribution: gnu
  11. Message-ID: <1993Jan21.112654.6681@cs.nott.ac.uk>
  12. Reply-To: "D.Peakall" <plyidp@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk>
  13. Keywords: movemail security
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  15. I've been unable to persuade my sysadmin to make the movemail routine
  16. setuid because they believe it will compromise system security.  I
  17. assume that they are referring to the bug that I seem to remember
  18. being described in Clifford Stoll's book `The Cukoo's Egg'.  We have
  19. version 18.58.1 for berkeley unix.  Is this still a problem?
  20.  
  21. Dale Peakall
  22. plyidp@mips.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk
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