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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:54:49 +0100
From: Peter van Dijk <peter@...aloss.nl>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Question about using popa3d and stunnel
On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 07:20:51PM +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
[snip]
> It's a really good idea to have stunnel running as a dedicated
> pseudo-user (I don't know if this still requires patching, it used
> to). There have been numerous security holes discovered in both
> stunnel itself and in OpenSSL that it uses.
>From the manpage:
-s username
setuid() to username in daemon mode
-g groupname
setgid() to groupname in daemon mode. Clears all other
groups.
This is stunnel 3.22 from the FreeBSD ports. Above functionality does
not seem to come from a patch applied by the port.
Greetz, Peter
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