paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) (11/28/89)
I recently upgrade to SCO Unix 3.2 from Xenix and I notice some permission problems for non-superuser or non-root in mailer and bbs programs. I tried to send mail out of Elm 2.2 PL8 and Mush but I am getting exact same error message: [Permission denied] Can't Create text file to be queued. I think this is part of SCO Unix error message. I have some problem on executing XBBS but I modified somewhere in source code and works fine as far as I am awared. Can you help me with strange permission problem? Don't tell me to use "chmod 777" on /tmp or directories. This does not work this way but this is poor security practice. Thank you... willy ................................................................ . Willy Paine BBS +1-206-822-4615 . . willyp@seaeast.WA.COM FidoNet 1:343/15 . . uunet!nwnexus!seaeast!willyp fungus.dnet.dec.com!paine . ................................................................
steve@txsil.UUCP (Steve McConnel) (11/29/89)
In article <8911271655.AA04386@decwrl.dec.com> paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes: > >I recently upgrade to SCO Unix 3.2 from Xenix . . . >I tried to send mail out of Elm 2.2 PL8 and Mush but I am getting exact >same error message: > >[Permission denied] Can't Create text file to be queued. > . . . We've had similar problems with SCO UNIX V/386 version 3.2 The exact same message popped out from the Rnmail script at the point it invoked "/usr/lib/sendmail -t <XXX" to send a message. I think the message itself comes from inside /usr/mmdf/bin/submit, but haven't yet figured out a fix. doing chmod 777 to a couple of likely directories (so who wants to be secure other than the SCO marketing dept? :-) didn't help. The only thing that worked was running Rnmail (or usr/lib/sendmail) while logged in as mmdf. Since /usr/lib/sendmail is setuid/setgid to mmdf, and /usr/mmdf/bin/submit is setuid to mmdf, i can't figure it out except that SCO's paranoid security "enhancements" have struck again in the direction of making the system unusable. Naturally, there's no documentation for either /usr/lib/sendmail or /usr/mmdf/bin/submit in either of the System Administrator manuals, as far as i can tell, and no online documention either. it makes me long for the good ol' days with well-documented, easily-configured, user-friendly 4.2BSD sendmail. :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) -- Stephen McConnel Summer Institute of Linguistics PHONE: 214-709-2418 7500 W. Camp Wisdom Road UUCP: ...!{texbell|convex|pollux}!txsil!steve Dallas, TX 75236 Internet: steve@txsil.lonestar.org