david@pyr.gatech.EDU (David Brown) (10/06/88)
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Hardware: Vax 11/750 & several Sun 3/60's
OS: 4.3BSD+NFS and SunOS 3.5
The Vax is the 'mail server'. It's /usr/spool/mail directory is remotely
mounted on all of the Suns, so that regardless of where a user logs in,
they can read their mail. I have the 'nobody' feature turned on, because
most of the Suns are publicly accessable. The problem is that whenever I
send mail from my workstation, its owned by 'nobody' when it finally gets
to the spool directory (because sendmail runs suid-root, and root is mapped
to nobody on the remote machine).
Is anyone else trying this type of approach? Can sendmail run suid
to someone else? Are you using a different mailer? Should I just tweek
the sendmail.cf on the Suns to route everything through the Vax (Bleah!)?
Thanks in advance,
David Brown
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David Brown
Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia
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Subject: NFS mounted /usr/spool/mail?
Keywords: mail NFS nobody
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{Sorry if some of you see this twice, there were problems sending
the first one...}
Hardware: Vax 11/750 & several Sun 3/60's
OS: 4.3BSD+NFS and SunOS 3.5
The Vax is the 'mail server'. It's /usr/spool/mail directory is remotely
mounted on all of the Suns, so that regardless of where a user logs in,
they can read their mail. I have the 'nobody' feature turned on, because
most of the Suns are publicly accessable. The problem is that whenever I
send mail from my workstation, its owned by 'nobody' when it finally gets
to the spool directory (because sendmail runs suid-root, and root is mapped
to nobody on the remote machine).
Is anyone else trying this type of approach? Can sendmail run suid
to someone else? Are you using a different mailer? Should I just tweek
the sendmail.cf on the Suns to route everything through the Vax (Bleah!)?
Thanks in advance,
David Brown
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David Brown
Armstrong State College, Savannah, Georgia
uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!david
ARPA: david@pyr.gatech.edu