Hi Haines, Haines Brown writes:
> I installed Beowulf over Ascii several months ago and want to report > general success. > > However, there was a glitch I do not understand. I could not get SMTP > authentication (I'm running exim4 and mutt). Turned out that exim > could not read my etc/eximr4/passwd.client file. Its ownership and > permissinons were > > -rw-r----- 1 root saned 653 Oct 29 12:17 passwd.client I would have expected this file to have group Debian-exim (or mail), not saned which is normally used for a scanner server. Please check the access and ownership of /etc/eximr4 and files in it. ls -ld /etc/eximr4 # for the directory itself ls -l /etc/eximr4 # for the files in it Then use the chgrp and chmod utilities to fix things up. > which is the same as they were on Ascii. User was in the saned group. > > I recovered an ability to send e-mal by changing the permission to > > -rw-r--r-- This is probably a very Bad Thing. Everyone can now read your password file :-o > If user is in saned group, shouldn't the user running exim be able to > get SMTP authentication by reading passwd.client? Only if that user can also read the content of the directory in the first place. For that it needs r-x on the directory. # I vaguely remember that only --x is sufficient but am no longer sure # (and too lazy to check ;-) Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng