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From: david@pyr.gatech.EDU (David Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: NFS mounted /usr/spool/mail?
Keywords: mail NFS nobody
Message-ID: <6506@pyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: 5 Oct 88 21:54:10 GMT
Reply-To: david@pyr.gatech.edu.UUCP (David Brown)
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, Ga.
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    {Sorry if some of you see this twice, there were problems sending
     the first one...}

  Hardware: Vax 11/750 & several Sun 3/60's
  OS: 4.3BSD+NFS and SunOS 3.5

  The Vax is the 'mail server'.  It's /usr/spool/mail directory is remotely
  mounted on all of the Suns, so that regardless of where a user logs in,
  they can read their mail.  I have the 'nobody' feature turned on, because
  most of the Suns are publicly accessable.  The problem is that whenever I
  send mail from my workstation, its owned by 'nobody' when it finally gets
  to the spool directory (because sendmail runs suid-root, and root is mapped
  to nobody on the remote machine).

  Is anyone else trying this type of approach?  Can sendmail run suid
  to someone else?  Are you using a different mailer?  Should I just tweek
  the sendmail.cf on the Suns to route everything through the Vax (Bleah!)?

  Thanks in advance,

    David Brown
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David Brown
Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia
uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!david
ARPA: david@pyr.gatech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.misc.mail,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: NFS mounted /usr/spool/mail?
Keywords: mail NFS nobody
Sender: david@pyr.gatech.edu (David Brown)
Reply-To: david@pyr.gatech.edu (David Brown)
Distribution: world
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, Ga.


    {Sorry if some of you see this twice, there were problems sending
     the first one...}

  Hardware: Vax 11/750 & several Sun 3/60's
  OS: 4.3BSD+NFS and SunOS 3.5

  The Vax is the 'mail server'.  It's /usr/spool/mail directory is remotely
  mounted on all of the Suns, so that regardless of where a user logs in,
  they can read their mail.  I have the 'nobody' feature turned on, because
  most of the Suns are publicly accessable.  The problem is that whenever I
  send mail from my workstation, its owned by 'nobody' when it finally gets
  to the spool directory (because sendmail runs suid-root, and root is mapped
  to nobody on the remote machine).

  Is anyone else trying this type of approach?  Can sendmail run suid
  to someone else?  Are you using a different mailer?  Should I just tweek
  the sendmail.cf on the Suns to route everything through the Vax (Bleah!)?

  Thanks in advance,

    David Brown
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David Brown
Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia
uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!david
ARPA: david@pyr.gatech.edu