Re: [RHSA-1999:030-01] Buffer overflow in cron daemon

[Todd C. Miller]

> Why not just have sendmail run as the user who owns the crontab?
> I see no credible reason to run it as root.  This is fairly simple
> as do_command and cron_popen are only used to send mail anyway.

That should be "cron_popen is only used to send mail anyway".

 - todd