On 09-Oct-99 Bruno Van de Casteele wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Cron Daemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 6:35 AM > Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily > > >> /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: >> /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to >> root.root > 4755 >> > > this may sound stupid... but was does this error message means? > >
suidmanager (an application that watches the permissions on a file) has noticed that sendmail has had its permissions changed. root.root means owned by user 'root', group 'root', 777 refers to the file permissions (see man chmod). sendmail went from being non-setuid to being setuid, hence the 4755. It is less an error and more of a warning. It you want to setuid a program, use suidregister. I do not believe sendmail needs setuid permissions however.
