Re: [cobalt-security] sendmail file permission

["David Seaton" <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Jaana Jarve" <netcat@xxxxxxxxx>


On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, David Seaton wrote:

> Ok, I'm sure this has been asked before, but I did a search on the archives
and
> didn't find it.
>
> My server is notifying me that the sendmail.cf file permissions are not set
> properly on my RaQ3.
> The warning:
> /etc/sendmail.cf: WARNING: dangerous write permissions
>
> the permissions are:
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root     root        32983 Dec  4 05:31 sendmail.cf
>
> I think this should be -rw-r--r--
> But I didn't want to chance something that may cause further problems.

hard to see how fixing the permissions could cause problems, but hey, in
any case, if you want them back the way they were, you can always change
them back just as easily. in any case, the RaQ3 does not need them to
be that way - it works fine with -rw-r--r--

rgds,
netcat

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Thanks! I changed it to -rw-r--r-- before, sendmail worked and the message
stopped appearing. I just wanted to make sure that if I installed an update of
some type for sendmail. That it doesn't cause problems for me then. I thought I
recalled a discussion on this topic before, but I could not find it.

Thanks again.