Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 21:53:33 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Pilli <reissell@cc.helsinki.fi> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail.local permissions Message-ID: <200011050453.VAA38611@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "05 Nov 2000 03:35:25 %2B0200." <87pukb19r6.fsf@mursu.pesa.fi> References: <87pukb19r6.fsf@mursu.pesa.fi>
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In message <87pukb19r6.fsf@mursu.pesa.fi> Pilli writes: : Just cvsup'ed to 4.2-BETA and sendmail's local mailer refused to play : ball. After a little hair-pulling I noticed the permissions of : /usr/libexec/mail.local lacked the setuid bit. Mail.local would return : an error (75 if I recall) everytime it was called because it didn't : have permissions to write to /var/mail/so-and-so. Please see the latest entry in UPDATING (soon to be commited to 4.x): 20001020: ****************************** WARNING ****************************** Sendmail has been updated. ****************************** WARNING ****************************** o mail.local(8) is no longer installed as a set-user-id binary. o sendmail(8) is now built with STARTTLS support unless NO_OPENSSL is set. o The default /etc/mail/sendmail.cf disables the SMTP EXPN and VRFY commands. o Now using sendmail's version of vacation(1). o The sendmail cf building tools (contrib/sendmail/cf) are installed in /usr/share/sendmail/cf. o sendmail.cw changed to local-host-names More details can be found at http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/UPDATING/sendmail-20001010 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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