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Bug 4916 - sendmail and permission in /var/spool/clientmqueue
Summary: sendmail and permission in /var/spool/clientmqueue
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Grant Goodyear (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-07-12 08:40 UTC by Harald Kubota
Modified: 2006-02-04 06:03 UTC (History)
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Description Harald Kubota 2002-07-12 08:40:16 UTC 
Just built sendmail 8.12.4-r3 on PPC and x86 and both cannot send out mails
without me changing manually the permissions in /var/spool/clientmqueue
to rwxrwxr-x from the previous rwxr-xr-x
Since the user smmsp needs write access to this directory,
I don't understand why it does not work out-of-the-box.
Sendmail warns afterwards that the permissions 40775 are dangerous.
Maybe setting the SGID instead of the SUID is less dangerous.
Comment 1 Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-07-12 16:58:20 UTC 
Should be fixed now.
Comment 2 Target 2004-02-22 02:07:37 UTC 
Broken again in 8.12.10 through 8.12.11 (at least).