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Date:      Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:37:05 +0200
From:      Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
To:        Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.6.2 sendmail anomaly
Message-ID:  <20020910193705.GA32731@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20020910142211.01f5bb80@computinginnovations.com>
References:  <5.1.1.6.2.20020910142211.01f5bb80@computinginnovations.com>

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On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 02:25:26PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote:
> I just installed 4.6.2 on a system and now mail sent using the mail command 
> doesn't work.

This doesn't really belong on -security.  It should have been sent to
-questions instead.

> 
> I get an error that the temp queue file cannot be created, permission 
> denied.
> 
> I have tracked down what I think is the problem:
> $ ls -al /usr/libexec/sendmail/
> total 587
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel     512 Sep  9 13:53 .
> drwxr-xr-x  8 root  wheel    1536 Sep  9 13:54 ..
> -r-xr-sr-x  1 root  25     581728 Aug 14 14:21 sendmail
> 
> Should sendmail be group setuid?  Should it be group 25?  What is group 25?

Yes, yes, and the line in /etc/groups should be "smmsp:*:25:"

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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se

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