root@VLSI-MENTOR.JPL.NASA.GOV (The vlsi-mentor Super User) (03/16/90)
>No, sendmail does not even know about local mailboxes. It usually >invokes /bin/mail to deliver local mail - and /bin/mail does indeed >set the ownership of user mailboxes properly, at least it does at our >site. I believe /bin/mail must have suid root - like this: >Could that be the source of your problem? ... >lsacl /bin/mail > root.%.% prwx- setuid Indeed it could. That was it. Thanks to all who responded! Oh...one other thing: >lsacl -l /usr/lib/sendmail > root.%.% prwx- setuid Is this a good idea? I have heard that the infamous sendmail bug is in 10.1 sendmail. I do this: lsacl /usr/lib/sendmail daemon.%.% prwx- setuid %.mail.% -rwx- setgid and make the group mail own all the sendmail files. <-==*==-> Dave Hayes "Attempt to find truth by realizing that it will generally find you." dave@vlsi-mentor.jpl.nasa.gov dave%vlsi-mentor.jpl.nasa.gov@jpl-mil <-==*==->