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Old 02-19-2008, 11:32 AM
Mark Hill
 
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Default Re: root without permission

On Sat, 15 May 2004 02:04:33 +0200,
druid <druid@perun.home.net> wrote:
> root@perun:~# uptime| mail druid
>
> root@perun:~# can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
> Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.


That directory has to belong to the smmsp user by default. (It's a
sendmail security thing.)

$ ls -ld /var/spool/clientmqueue/
drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 1024 2004-05-15 01:39 /var/spool/clientmqueue/


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