From: Dr. Otto Titze (titze@ikp.tu-darmstadt.de)
Date: Fri Mar 21 2003 - 09:46:03 EST
Hi Managers,
it seems as if the problem is solved.
I got a long phone call from
Michael Polnick polnick@pdv-sachsen.net
PDV-Systeme Sachsen (I company with good support of DEC systems)
With his help I found out that the message
/var/adm/sendmail/local.users : Group writable directory
was correct. Not local.users had it but /var!
drwxrw-r-x 26 root system 8192 Mar 20 20:17 var
Furthermore I should create an empty /var/yp/scr/mailaliases.
I changed the permission and made a new NIS master setup. And then
everything
looked much better.
Also Uwe Lienig <Uwe.Lienig@fif.mw.htw-dresden.de> made the remark
Sendmail is very picky about permissions. It tells you, that the
directory,
where the local.users lives in is writable by the group. Since this is a
security hole, it denies access to the file by itself - the message,
though, may
be misinterpreted!
But when I tried to send mails to normal users from outside I got a new
error message in the returned mail
binmail: creating /usr/spool/mail/volz -: Permission denied
Mail saved in dead.letter
I checked the permissions again everything seemed to be ok, but finally
Michael pointed me to that my /var was still in trouble
drwxr--r-x 26 root system 8192 Mar 20 20:17 var
the Group had no execution rights
Finally chmod g+x var solved it.
As far as I could test mail seems to work
Interesting what a few permission bits can do and how such an important
directory
like /var was wrong.
Regards
Otto
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