Sendmail still will not read config files

[roger2]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:17:43 -0800, Tom Mitchell <mitch48 at sbcglobal.net> 
wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:36:25AM +0200, Robert Key wrote:
>>
>> Sendmail still refuses to load because it will not read
>> local-host-users  and trusted-users  in /etc/mail
>> with the message "Could not read trusted-users with Worldwide readable
>> directory"
>> I have tried all the following permissions but none work.
>>
>> /etc/mail    0755 (default)  0400, 0700, 0600 and owner root.root
>> files 0744 (default), 0400, 0700 owner root.root
>>  Nothing works. The error message remains the same.
>
> Three quick things to check.
>
> 	ls -ld /etc/mail
> 	ls -l  /etc/mail/{local-host-user,trusted-users}
> 	egrep "DEF_USER_ID|TRUSTED_USER" /etc/mail/sendmail.mc # check against 
> passwd
>
> Also you might see things better by running make and restart by hand.
>
> 	make -C /etc/mail
> 	service sendmail restart
>
> I expect that TRUSTED_USER in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc is being confused
> with /etc/mail/trusted-users.  Some changes have been made in sendmail
> so files that were smmsp:root or root:root are now different.  In a 
> chroot
> universe the inside and outside UID/GID and names being used must match.
>
> I think that "local-host-users" is a non standard file name.  What and
> why does it exist and how is it used.
>
Could the problem be that the directory IS world readabel(and writeable).
I read somwhere sendmail will not trust directories like that if they are 
surposed to contain trusted information.
I could be way off the mark here so forgive me if that is the case.
Regards Roger



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