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Re: commit-email.pl and elevated gid

From: Ted Dustman <dustman_at_cvrti.utah.edu>
Date: 2005-03-31 02:39:31 CEST

Hi,

Me again. Got no response from my previous message below. Thought I
would try again. If my email seems utterly without merit then call me
nuts---it won't be the first time :-)

Thanks,

T.

On Mar 24, 2005, at 3:49 PM, Ted Dustman wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running svnserve 1.1 under control of xinetd on mac os x 10.3.8.
> Xinetd is configured to run svnserve as a non-root user (uid 1029 and
> gid 80). However, I've found that commit-email.pl is running with an
> effective gid of 0. This causes commit-email.pl to abort when setting
> up the pipe to sendmail because perl's tainting mechanism doesn't like
> the elevated group privileges. Why is commit-email.pl running with
> egid set to 0? If I configure xinetd to run svnserve with group 0
> then all is well. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> T.
>
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> Ted Dustman
> University of Utah
> Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute
> Room 104
> 95 South 2000 East
> Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5000
>
> e-mail: dustman@cvrti.utah.edu
> Phone: (801) 587-9513
> Fax: (801) 581-3128
>
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Ted Dustman
University of Utah
Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute
Room 104
95 South 2000 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5000

e-mail: dustman@cvrti.utah.edu
Phone: (801) 587-9513
Fax: (801) 581-3128

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