Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:52:42 -0800 From: Edwin Culp <eculp@encontacto.net> To: Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: majordomo freebsd port (permission denied error with sendmail) Message-ID: <1012247562.3c55ac0ac2425@Mail.SavvyWorld.Net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.4.10.10201282020430.27714-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> References: <Pine.A41.4.10.10201282020430.27714-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi>
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Quoting Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi>: > well I could have suggested you qmail+mysql with vpopmail > I set it up at a free mail service that we gave for example. > it is cool also take a look, it says it can handle up to 23 million > virtual domains and 23 million users in each domain > http://www.inter7.com/vpopmail/ Evren, Thanks for the suggestion and the link and I was considering it but when I saw the new courier port I decided to test it and before I knew it esmtp, pop3 and imap were working with ldap and with no unix users. I'm a bit lazy to start the above now that I've already got courier doing basically what I want/need. The port is a good upgrade path also. Thanks, ed > > Evren > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Edwin Culp wrote: > > > Quoting Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi>: > > > > > I think the correct solition is to put mailnull user into majordom > > > group in /etc/group > > > > > > Well my majordomo just started working when I put mailnull into majordom > > > group. I didnt need to touch anything about /usr/libexec/sm.bin > > I changed ownership on all of majordomo but this may have been an overkill > :-) > > > > > > By the way I only made simple commands lists etc. work so I dont know > how > > > much functionality I have yet. > > > > > > Even though sendmail man pages for smrsh suggests that the commands > should > > > be put into /usr/libexec/sm.bin somehow my solution is also working > > > perhaps because I have the full path after | in aliases? > > > > I just linked it in because I was trying to fix everything in sight. I > > really don't know if it is necessary but it can't hurt and you never know > > with sendmail when it will be needed if it isn't now. > > > > The above and the super port of /usr/ports/mail/courier 37.2 by Yarema > > <yds@CoolRat.org>, that just works out of the box, has convenced me > > to switch to courier and openldap. After many years of Sendmail, I'm > > tired of it, uw-imap, pam, and no more mail or ftp users in etc/passwd. > > > > ed > > > > > > Evren > > > > > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Edwin Culp wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Does wrapper also need to be linked to /usr/libexec/sm.bin. I asked > > > > about this some time ago on this list and got no answer so I changed > > > > user:group to mailnull:mailnull for /usr/local/majordomo and linked > > > > wrapper to /usr/libexec/sm.bin and it seems to work fine but I could > > > > very well be mistaken. I also use hypermail and had to make the > > > > same changes to it. > > > > > > > > There seems to be a similar problem with mailman although I just > tested > > > > it at the time of the sendmail change and didn't try changing perms > > > because > > > > I was too busy fixing what was broken:-) > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > ed > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quoting Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi>: > > > > > > > > > majordomo installs an entry into /etc/group file when I install it > from > > > > > ports but it makes a mistake. > > > > > as it seems, sendmail is run as mailnull user nowadays, so daemon > user > > > > > doesnt have access to wrapper script properly thus it complains > about > > > > > permission denied errors. > > > > > > > > > > I guess the default install behaviour should be changed so majordomo > > > adds > > > > > majordom:*:54:mailnull > > > > > instead of > > > > > majordom:*:54:daemon > > > > > into the /etc/group file > > > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > Evren Yurtesen > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > > --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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