Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 15:51:41 -0700 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers), henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu (Charles Henrich) Subject: Re: .forward and sendmail? Message-ID: <199604282251.PAA00388@Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Apr 1996 07:44:27 %2B0200." <199604220544.HAA18025@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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>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). sendmail is _supposed_ to run as suid root: -r-sr-xr-x 3 root bin 245760 Mar 28 23:02 /usr/sbin/sendmail -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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