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[Jules Field]

On 25/01/2010 17:56, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> On Fri, January 22, 2010 11:17 am, Lyndon Labuschagne wrote:
>    
>> Hello All
>>
>> I hope you can shed some light on the below issue
>>
>> This is a new install of MailScanner 4.79.5
>> FreeBSD 8.0 amd64
>>      
> You didn't read the install notes.
>
> ---
>
> 	*****************************************************************
> 	A new rc variable called mailscanner_user has been added to the
> 	startup script. This is a temporary workaround to address the
> 	numerous taint mode problems that are still present in the code.
>
> 	If you changed the "Run As User" variable in MailScanner.conf
> 	you MUST also set the same value in /etc/rc.conf.
>
> 	i.e. mailscanner_user="postfix"
>
> 	The new variable uses su to start the master perl script as the
> 	specified user, this effectively disables perl's taint mode.
> 	*****************************************************************
>
>    
I believe all the taint mode problems are now fixed. More importantly, I 
would like to know of any remaining ones so I can fix them, so please 
don't use this with the very latest beta. But if you aren't running 
4.79.9 then *do* use that mailscanner_user fix. Thanks.

Jules

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