[plug] Running Qmail
Christian
christian at global.net.au
Sun Sep 19 11:57:27 WST 1999
Russell Steicke wrote:
>
> I think Greg was on the right track with this. Setting uid and gid is
> something that only root is allowed to do, unless you have a suid binary.
> So it would make sense that /usr/local/bin/setuidgid would have
> permissions like rwx------, ie only executable for root. In the script
> you have two invocations of setuidgid one after the other. The first one
> is probably succeeding, ie it is becoming the user qmaill, and then the
> second one fails. My guess would be to get rid of the first setuidgid in
> the pipeline.
Without really knowing what you're talking about I would suspect that
the permissions for "/usr/local/bin/setuidgid" might be root:root
rws------ instead of rwx------.
Regards,
Christian.
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