Re: sendmail half-works (more data)
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> begin dman quotation:
> >
> > 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)
>
> Yes.
No, not with modern sendmail (8.12.0+), sendmail is now sgid smmsp !
> > 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)
>
> Dunno, I've never installed sendmail on a Debian system.
You should look at it again, it has come along way in the time I've
been using it (about 8.7.6). Much more goodness is comming ;)
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(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands, especially
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