Re: sendmail half-works (more data)
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, dman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:41:39PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> | begin dman quotation:
> | >
> | > Is sendmail supposed to be suid or something?
> |
> | Bingo.
Bzzt. wrong for sendmail >= 8.12.0 !
> Ok, so should /usr/sbin/sendmail be suid root? (I'm not sure because
> sendmail is much more complex than exim is and has many more pieces)
>
> If so, why wasn't it that way already? Does the package come with it
> suid and linuxconf screwed it up, or is the package broken?
> (version 8.12.3-4)
Sendmail should most definitely *NOT* be suid... its sgid for a reason!
It sounds like linuxconf has severely fscked your setup !
Unfortunately, I know nothing about what linuxconf does, and the
standard answer on c.m.s is to not touch linuxconf as it *will*
screw things up.
If I were you, I'd:
1) dpkg --purge --force-depends sendmail
2) apt-get install sendmail
3) Keep linuxconf from touching sendmail
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