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From: root@VLSI-MENTOR.JPL.NASA.GOV (The vlsi-mentor Super User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  sendmail with 10.1 and BSD4.3
Message-ID: <9003151949.AA09674@vlsi-mentor.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: 15 Mar 90 19:49:24 GMT
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>No, sendmail does not even know about local mailboxes.  It usually
>invokes /bin/mail to deliver local mail - and /bin/mail does indeed
>set the ownership of user mailboxes properly, at least it does at our
>site.  I believe /bin/mail must have suid root - like this:
>Could that be the source of your problem?
...
>lsacl /bin/mail
>        root.%.%                prwx-   setuid

Indeed it could. That was it. Thanks to all who responded!

Oh...one other thing:
>lsacl -l /usr/lib/sendmail
>        root.%.%                prwx-   setuid

Is this a good idea? I have heard that the infamous sendmail 
bug is in 10.1 sendmail.

I do this:

lsacl /usr/lib/sendmail
        daemon.%.%               prwx-  setuid
        %.mail.%                 -rwx-  setgid

and make the group mail own all the sendmail files. 




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