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Subject: Re: 2.2 and FreeBSD
From: Sean Chittenden <sean () chittenden ! org>
Date: 2002-10-23 2:32:04
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> Is anybody running imapd-2.2 on FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE or higher? I'm
> having a confusing problem running master. It closes FDs 0-2, opens
> them to /dev/null, and then tries to reserver FDs 3 and 4. No problem
> there normally, but FreeBSD is returning FDs higher then 3 and 4. 7 and
> 8 usually.
>
> Any clues?
This was done to ensure security. Doing this prevents a suite of
attacks from setuid programs, iirc. Check google for more info, but
this was something that was committed in mid to early september,
again, iirc. -sc
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Sean Chittenden
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