Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:43:31 +0000 From: Mike Doyle <relyod@cooperationireland.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with Majordomo since upgrade Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030318113029.02814150@199.107.2.1>
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Hi
I performed a BINARY upgrade from FreeBSD 4.1 to FreeBSD 4.8RC, mostly due
to the
sendmail security issue.
Almost everything seems to be fine, but I have had trouble getting
Majordomo to run.
At the moment, I have it sort-of working (by giving the two mail spool
directories
group and world writable permissions, which sendmail warns about), but I
also get the
following messages in my /var/log/messages
> Mar 18 11:27:13 liffey sendmail[61628]: h2IBQujr061625:
SYSERR(majordom): openmailer:
insufficient privileges to change gid, RunAsUid=54, new_gid=0, gid=1,
egid=25
UID 54 is Majordomo
GID 1 is daemon
GID 25 is smmsp (i.e. part of sendmail)
I understand that this message is warning me that the Majordomo process was
unable to change
group to the "correct" group to run (if it had worked, I wouldn't need a
world writeable spool
directory). Any suggestions what I can do to fix this ? Why would majordomo
be trying to
change group to the wheel group anyway ?
The problem is probably due to my incorrectly merging changes to the
/etc/passwd or
/etc/group file during an upgrade (originally binary upgraded from FreeBSD
3.x -> 4.1 and then
from 4.1 -> 4.8RC if I recall correctly).
When 4.8 comes out for real, I may end up doing a complete re-install, and
re-create
all my users. This server is the mail server for the company (POP accounts,
users
have no shell accounts, it also doubles as a SQUID server for about half
users. no
other processes running on the machine) I don't want to have to leave the
mail spool
directories with excessively generous permissions indefinitely. So help
getting out
of this hole I appear to have dug for myself would be appreciated.
Especially if I can avoid
having to do a clean install, and therefore re-creating 70 odd user
accounts and re-issuing
all those passwords.
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Michael Doyle email: relyod@cooperationireland.org
Network Administrator personal email: relyod@indigo.ie
Co-operation Ireland http://www.cooperationireland.org/
Phone: +353-1-661 0588 Fax: +353-1-661 8456
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