From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 21 23:08:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA13396 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 23:08:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA13391 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 1996 23:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA09420; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 08:08:13 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA04254; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 08:08:12 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id HAA18025; Mon, 22 Apr 1996 07:44:28 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199604220544.HAA18025@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1996 07:44:27 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199604220320.XAA08263@crh.cl.msu.edu> from "Charles Henrich" at Apr 21, 96 11:20:11 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Charles Henrich wrote: > Explain to me how exactly sendmail is supposed to read .forward's > out of peoples directories, when it apparently runs as daemon? I > have had zero luck with this unless the directories are world read, > as well as the .forward, this is unusual! What am I missing here? I think it must be readable by `daemon' (and i would even call this a security feature, as opposed to reading the file with root privileges). Of course, your directory doesn't need to be readable by `daemon', it's sufficient if it is _search_able by him (e.g.., drwxr-x--x). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)