sendmail error

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Thu May 26 22:47:34 UTC 2005


Am Fr, den 27.05.2005 schrieb Nina Pham um 0:30:

> I have the following error messages when I try to sendmail from nonroot user
> 
>     WARNING: RunAsUser for MSP ignored, check group ids(egid=501, want=51)
>     can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
>     Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser
> 
> That happens even though I already put the username(who sends mail to 
> the trusted list.

You accidentally change permissions of the Sendmail binary?

-rwxr-sr-x  1 root smmsp 732356 Sep  1  2004 /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail

Please too check the permissions as stated in
/usr/share/doc/sendmail/SECURITY.
http://www.sendmail.org/secure-install.html

Alexander


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