On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 01:20:31PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: | On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, dman wrote: | > On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:41:39PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: | > | begin dman quotation: | > | > | > | > Is sendmail supposed to be suid or something? | > | | > | Bingo. | | Bzzt. wrong for sendmail >= 8.12.0 ! | | > 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) | > | > 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) | | Sendmail should most definitely *NOT* be suid... its sgid for a reason! | | It sounds like linuxconf has severely fscked your setup !
Hmm, I'm not too surprised by that. I know linuxconf works on RH[1],
but I haven't heard much about it on Debian. In fact, it wrote
/etc/conf.modules on that woody (but 2.2 kernel) system!
| Unfortunately, I know nothing about what linuxconf does, and the
| standard answer on c.m.s is to not touch linuxconf as it *will*
| screw things up.
|
| If I were you, I'd:
| 1) dpkg --purge --force-depends sendmail
| 2) apt-get install sendmail
| 3) Keep linuxconf from touching sendmail
If I did that I'd install exim instead. The other admin uses
linuxconf on RH to manage sendmail. I don't want to learn a new
turing-complete language just to deliver mail!
However, could you send me a detailed description of your sendmail
system? Things like 'ls -l' on all sendmail files and spools, etc.
That way I can compare it to this system and see what went wrong. At
least I could (maybe) manually correct it and/or submit a bug report
to the linuxconf people.
TIA,
-D
[1] At least for some definition of "works". The other admin uses it
for everything.
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