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http://git.exim.org/exim.git/commitdiff/fea24b2ea4e2c2a4b77d6fb222054e32e658b227
Commit: fea24b2ea4e2c2a4b77d6fb222054e32e658b227
Parent: eec525c43adade97ff94d839810faf7cb35bd87f
Author: Phil Pennock <pdp@???>
AuthorDate: Sun Jan 16 21:54:53 2011 -0500
Committer: Phil Pennock <pdp@???>
CommitDate: Sun Jan 16 21:56:06 2011 -0500
Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz
---
doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
src/src/readconf.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index e27496b..0780fc7 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
+PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
+ The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
+ permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
+ Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
+
Exim version 4.73
-----------------
diff --git a/src/src/readconf.c b/src/src/readconf.c
index 118ccf5..0b78958 100644
--- a/src/src/readconf.c
+++ b/src/src/readconf.c
@@ -2875,9 +2875,9 @@ else
}
/* Check the status of the file we have opened, if we have retained root
-privileges. */
+privileges and the file isn't /dev/null (which *should* be 0666). */
-if (trusted_config)
+if (trusted_config && Ustrcmp(filename, US"/dev/null"))
{
if (fstat(fileno(config_file), &statbuf) != 0)
log_write(0, LOG_MAIN|LOG_PANIC_DIE, "failed to stat configuration file %s",
