Daniel Woods wrote:
> 
> > If I send mail as a user, I always get this message:
> >
> > send-mail: warning: sendmail is set-uid root, or is run from a set-uid root
> > process
> >
> > First off, I do not have sendmail installed, it is postfix, but nevertheless
> > I would like to eliminate this problem/message.  How do I do this?  Who
> > should own/run the mail program if not root ? By this I mean if I am to
> > remove root uid, to whom to I change it?  Daemon?
> 
> I use postfix and I have the following setting...
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        64284 Oct  3 12:16 /usr/sbin/sendmail
> 
> Works fine for and no errors reported.


As soon as I changed the owner from root to "nobody" and left the group
at
"mail", the problems vanished.  Leaving it as you have it always
produced the
warning message about set-uid root.

praedor

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