From: david@prism.demon.co.uk (David Metcalfe) Subject: Re: sendmail works only for root Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1993 00:04:18 +0000
Kee Chua (kkc@stat.nursing.arizona.edu) wrote:
: Hi people,
: I had "smail" working fine for me, but being curious, I decided to try
: "sendmail" instead of "smail". It works fine, but only for root! I thought
: that this must be a permission bits problem and so I changed all sendmail.*
: files ro read and exec by everyone. Didn't work. I then set the uid of
: /usr/lib/sendmail (i.e. rws-r-sr-s), but still didn't work! What's wrong???
: Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Well I have it setuid to root and set gid to mem, that is you have to
chgrp mem /usr/lib/sendmail. There are also various other files that
have to have specific permissions. I suggest you get the Sendmail
Installation and Operations Guide from your nearest BSD 4.3 archive,
which takes through a manual setup procedure. Its part of the System
Manager's Manual and is usually called something like SMM-07, that is
it's section 7.
David