The file referred to is in the lists dir.
/www/www.tinylist.org/cgi-bin/lists/aliases.tinylist
lists dir is chmod 755, owner nobody, and the files in there are chmod 644, owner nobody.
in /etc/mail we create a SOFT link.
ln -s /www/www.tinylist.org/cgi-bin/lists/aliases.tinylist aliases.tinylist
We have sendmail.cf point at ./etc/mail/aliass.tinylist':
ln -s /www/www.tinylist.org/cgi-bin/lists/aliases.tinylist aliases.tinylist
I was root when I created the link. This makes the sendmail and operating system happy. It reads the file just fine, but creates the db right here in /etc/mail, where it can write as much as it pleases.
I licked it. Thank you one and all for all the good advice.
Neil W Rickert wrote:
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
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