Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 08:13:58 -0700 From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: After cvsup, can't send mails Message-ID: <15777.42166.950881.662539@ice.wonderworks.com> In-Reply-To: <20021007084358.T659-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> References: <3DA14427.5010009@Kernick.org> <20021007084358.T659-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
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Chris BeHanna writes: > On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Phil Kernick wrote: > > > Glendon Gross wrote: > > > This was a nuisance for me and meant that I couldn't use the > > > NetBSD sendmail but had to rebuild sendmail from sources I > > > got from sendmail.org in order to get it working. On FreeBSD > > > my upgrade to 4.2.6 STABLE caused my mailserver to fail. I > > > ended up setting up a different machine [running NetBSD] to > > > be my mail server. Subsequent make worlds have not fixed the > > > problem. > > > > Put this into your /etc/make.conf: > > SENDMAIL_SET_USER_ID=YES > > > > Then rebuild the world and you get back exactly the old > > sendmail functionality. It works perfectly for me: > > And completely circumvents the increased security of no longer > running sendmail as root. :-( You still have to run sendmail as root. The non-setuid binary limits local user command line based exploits but the daemon still has to be run as root. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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