Antony P Joseph on 27 Jun 2007 20:27:10 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] sendmail setup


Hi

On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 21:20 +0200, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:

> 
> There's been some permission separation in many mail systems over the
> last many years.  I wonder if this is the case for you here.  Is it
> acceptable to you just to use sudo for this?  Alternatively, you could
> write a custom setuid program that just does the appropriate setuid
> and execs mailq.  That's a very short C program and doesn't open a
> very large security hole, especially if it first checks that it is
> running as you.
if you still insists to do non-root way, please check whether you have
group named "mail" and /var/mail is owned by "mail" group. If yes, add
yourself to  the group and to sendmail.cf as a trusted user. Please
logout and login and check the command again.

With regards
Antony


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