Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 01:59:40 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@bug.gr> Cc: Justin <asmo@zeus.larp.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail Error Message-ID: <20000417015940.H23900@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <005001bfa7e7$ebc7ff60$10c536d4@charon> References: <005001bfa7e7$ebc7ff60$10c536d4@charon>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > The solution is to chmod sendmail's binary to be > set-uid root, and let simple users run sendmail as > root.wheel, as shown below: > > # cd /usr/sbin > # chmod 4755 mailwrapper > > (Don't worry about seeing mailwrapper here, instead > of sendmail. Your /usr/sbin/sendmail should be a link > to mailwrapper, as far as I know. :) uh.. I think this is wrong. AFAIK you should make the real sendmail program setuid root, *not* the wrapper. ben@strontium:~$ ls -l /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail /usr/sbin/mailwrapper -r-sr-xr-x 1 root wheel 315788 2 Apr 02:42 /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4556 2 Apr 02:42 /usr/sbin/mailwrapper* -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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