Why are MH utilities setuid?

From: Bob Vickers <bobv_at_dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 10:01:57 +0000 (GMT)

The message from Lamont Granquist prompts me to ask a question: why
are /usr/bin/mh/inc and /usr/bin/mh/msgchk setuid programs? I have
looked through the man pages and can't see any reason, given that
/var/spool/mail has permissions drwxrwxrwt. Other MUAs (pine, mailx,
emacs) do not run privileged.

We only have a very small number of MH users, but they get very upset
if we do anything which stops MH working.

Thanks for listening,
Bob

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Bob Vickers			R.Vickers_at_dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk
Dept of Computer Science, Royal Holloway College, University of London
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