Re: Sendmail lacks priviliges after upgrade?

[Claus Assmann <ca+OpenBSD_misc@zardoc.endmail.org>]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2002, Rickard Borgmäster wrote:
> I read that sendmail no longer uses setuid in 3.0. Is this what is
> causing my problem, logged below?
> 
>   [ rb@monitor:~ ] $ cat /etc/motd | sendmail rb
>   WARNING: RunAsGid for MSP ignored, check group ids (egid=1000, want=25)
>   can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
>   Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser.
> 
> Also, a message is written to /var/log/maillog:
> Mar 15 01:16:39 monitor sendmail[27776]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(rb): can not
> chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied
> 
> What is causing this?
> 
> Here are some info that might help you help me :-)
> 
> # grep smmsp /etc/group /etc/passwd
> /etc/group:smmsp:*:25:
> /etc/passwd:smmsp:*:25:25:Sendmail Message Submission
> Program:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
> 
> # ls -ld /var/spool/mqueue/ /var/spool/clientmqueue/
> drwxrwx---  2 smmsp  smmsp  512 Oct 18 22:24 /var/spool/clientmqueue/
> drwx------  2 root   wheel  512 Oct 18 22:24 /var/spool/mqueue/

ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail

-r-xr-sr-x  1 root  smmsp  1666469 Mar  5 15:45 /usr/sbin/sendmail

See sendmail/SECURITY.