Kirk Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >ok, I have an alias in /etc/mail, called aliases.tinylist; this is able to be >read by sendmail since I edited the sendmail.cf file, and it will compile it >without error. the /mail dir is owned by root, and is chmod 755.
>the file aliases.tinylist is owned by nobody currently, although in certain >tests it was owned by an unpriviliged user called grumpy, and it worked. That's a security risk. The ability to add aliases should be tightly restricted. >I could issue a echo statement from the command prompt as grumpy, appending to >the file, and it worked, regardless of what the current directory was. >But when I tried to do it as grumpy running a SCRIPT (in python) it refused >permission to write to the file. odd, grumpy could do it from the command >prompt... I don't know why you think this is a sendmail problem. From your description, it would seem to be a python problem. -NWR To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
