Bug 4916

Summary:	sendmail and permission in /var/spool/clientmqueue
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Harald Kubota <hkubota>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Grant Goodyear (RETIRED) <g2boojum>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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).