On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 10:56:53PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Julian Mehnle writes: > > >Sam Varshavchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Correct. Here's what you missed: > >> > >># ls -l /usr/lib/courier/bin/sendmail > >>-r-s--x--x 1 root daemon 140239 Nov 28 21:01 > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>On a default install of Courier, "sendmail" is setuid root. > > > >Hmm, thanks to you both, I indeed missed that. I'm running Courier 0.42 > >on Debian/testing, so I now checked whether the Debian packages do > >properly install `sendmail` as "suid root", and it seems they do: > > > > $ ls -la `which sendmail` > > -r-s--x--x 1 root daemon 28088 2003-09-11 23:42 > > /usr/sbin/sendmail > > No, it's not OK. Permissions on something is not set properly; for some > undefined value of ???something???. > > Try reporting this to the Debian port maintainer; have the port maintainer > double-check the permissions and ownership of everything. > Pardon me, but what's the difference between these permissions? I had problems similar to Julian when I tried the python-filters floating around a while ago. And what is ???something???
Using SMTP was no problem but sending email via mutt (using sendmail) ended in permission problems, so I uninstalled the python-filters again. Regards Mirko ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
