> If I understand you correctly here, the "mail" directory is owned by
> root/root and has a 755 permission, while the *.aliases files it
> contains have 777 permissions.
No good. Still get the permission error.
Thanks for trying.
Haines
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Carl,
Aha, that may be it! I simply migrated the aliases directory and files
up to the upgraded environment without worrying about their ownership
and permissions.
> I spoke to my mate and we put his lists in a dir /etc/mail/lists with owner and
>group of root
> and permissions of 755 and the f
At 10:31 07/01/2003 -0500, Haines Brown wrote:
>> I remember doing an :include: statement for a mate and we found that
>> 777 permissions on the file were OK but the directory must be set
>> correctly. I seem to remember it couldn't have root ownership.
>>
>> Check the sendmail faq at:
>> http://w
> I remember doing an :include: statement for a mate and we found that
> 777 permissions on the file were OK but the directory must be set
> correctly. I seem to remember it couldn't have root ownership.
>
> Check the sendmail faq at:
> http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.33
Thanks, Carl.
redhat 8.0 has much more conservative security settings out of the box
than previous versions of redhat had. Reason is too many hackers had too
much success knocking over systems that used those earlier versions. My
system was one of those casualties when I had redhat 7.2 running.
--
Jude
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>>
>>
>>For example, in /etc/aliases, I have a pointer to
>>
>>test: :include:/home/brownh/aliases/test.aliases
>>
>>But when I use it (after upgrading to RH 8.0), I get:
>>
>> - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -
>> :include:/home/brownh/aliases/test.aliases
>>
> check to produce, but you might want to check the possibility anyway. Try
> mode 644, instead of the 777 you say you are using, and see if that helps.
Unfortuntely, it didn't help (test.aliases is now rw_r__r__, which is
about what I started out with).
> It is also possible that you have your
Haines -- You might try setting *more* restrictive permissions on the
aliases file. I don't recall which MTA RH 8.0 uses (sendmail? exim?), but
alias-expansion code in MTAs often checks to make sure a specified alias
file can be edited ONLY by its owner, as a security measure to avoid
problems
When I use /etc/aliases for single address, it works ok (as I'm now
doing), but if there is a pointer to a file of addresses, it fails
because of permisions.
For example, in /etc/aliases, I have a pointer to
test: :include:/home/brownh/aliases/test.aliases
But when I use it (after upgradin
