I've seen this happen on a RedHat Linux box -- a user (root) ran linuxconf
and apparently looked at (changed?) some of the network configuration.
Linuxconf is braindead and as part of its setup it will change the
permissions on /usr/lib/sendmail, even if you don't have sendmail installed.
In particular, /usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/perm/mail has:
/usr/sbin/sendmail root root f 6755
This was on a RedHat 6.0 system (an Alpha) -- I don't know if this has been
fixed in newer versions of RedHat (I suspect not -- it looks like it is in
6.2 on a i386).
Generally I recommend staying away from linuxconf.
Jim
On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:41:22PM +0200, J.M. Roth wrote:
> Hi!
> First, is this correct, I mean should it be SUID?
> -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 9.4k Oct 2 1999 /var/qmail/bin/sendmail
> Second, can you point me to the options list of that program.
> man sendmail on my system reveals the real sendmail man page as it seems.
>
> Regards!
>
> --jmr
