Bruce Johnson writes:
The remedy that Nolan provided corrected the use for non-root users (for a time). HOWEVER, sendmail's privileges revert back over time and the owner becomes mail again and I don't know when. I even rebooted my machine to see if the privledges changed after reboot. They didn't as far as I could see. So, over a period of time ... I went to lunch and behold -r-s, reverts to -r-x. How does this happen?[EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ls -alt sendmail -r-s--x--x 1 root mail 72372 Nov 23 11:12 sendmail* [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ls -alt sendmail -r-s--x--x 1 root mail 72372 Nov 23 11:12 sendmail* [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ls -alt sendmail -r-s--x--x 1 root mail 72372 Nov 23 11:12 sendmail* [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ls -alt sendmail -r-x--x--x 1 root mail 72372 Nov 23 11:12 sendmail* [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# chmod 4511 sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# ls -alt sendmail -r-s--x--x 1 root mail 72372 Nov 23 11:12 sendmail* [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# Thx. Bruce
Something is screwing up the permissions of files on your box. Nothing to do with Courier.
There are other setuid and setgid programs in Courier. Chances are that they got screwed up too.
Find out what's doing this, and TURN THIS BLOODY THING OFF.
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