Re: Permission mismatch

[Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@gmx.net>]

Christian Dysthe <christian@operasoftware.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I keep getting this fiendly email from cron:
> 
> /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager:
> /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to
> root.root 4755
> 
> I am using exim so the sendmail refered to is just a symbolic
> link. But I still would like to know why this happens.

You should remove the according line of your /etc/suid.conf file.  A
symbolic link can never have permissions 4755, the suidmanager tries
to chmod 4755 this link on every run but the chmod always fails.  

The line is probably a relict of your sendmail days.[1]  If you never had
sendmail installed something strange has happen.

	Torsten


Footnotes: 
[1] Where /usr/sbin/sendmail is the suid root sendmail binary.

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