Try mail majordom
Mark Jones
>From: Marc Mims <marc@???>
>To: exim-users@???, majordomo-users@???
>Subject: exim/majordomo permission denied problem
>Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 10:22:51 -0700
>
>I am experiencing a problem that I have seen discussed in the
>Exim and Majordomo list archives, but I was unable to find an
>solution posted there. In fact, there is an entry in the
>Majordomo FAQ for this issue, but as you'll see below, I've
>followed the advice in the FAQ (I believe...), no no avail.
>
>After installing Majordomo and providing some initial setup, I am
>unable to send *any* mail. Any attempt to do so results in a
>permission denied error as the following example shows:
>
> $ echo 'test' | mail root
> 2001-05-10 10:03:29 14xtqb-0000jT-00 majordomo_aliases director:
> failed to open /usr/local/majordomo/lists/lists.aliases
> for linear search: Permission denied (euid=8 egid=8)
>
>User `mail' has uid 8; group `mail' has gid 8.
>
>FWIW, `mail' is a member of group `majordom'; `majordom' is a
>member of group `mail'.
>
>Mail does have read access to the file, as demonstrated by the
>following:
>
> # su mail
> $ cd /tmp; cat /usr/local/majordomo/lists/lists.aliases
> majordom: majordomo
> majordomo: "|/usr/local/majordomo/wrapper majordomo"
>
> owner-majordomo: postmaster
> majordomo-owner: postmaster
>
>File permissions on the file and each superior directory follow:
>
> # ls -l /usr/local/majordomo/lists/lists.aliases
> -rw-rw---- 1 majordom majordom 600 May 9 15:42
>
> # ls -ld /usr/local/majordomo/lists \
> > /usr/local/majordomo /usr/local /usr
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 May 3 07:44 /usr
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root staff 4096 May 8 19:27 /usr/local
> drwxrwxr-x 5 majordom majordom 4096 May 9 11:18
>/usr/local/majordomo
> drwxrwxr-x 2 majordom majordom 4096 May 9 15:42
>/usr/local/majordomo/lists
>
>And, finally, here are the additions I made to the exim.conf
>file:
>
> trusted_users = mail:majordom
>
> majordomo_aliases:
> driver = aliasfile
> file = /usr/local/majordomo/lists/lists.aliases
> user = majordom
> group = majordom
> search_type = lsearch
>
>I could sure use a solution to this problem. :-) Thanks in
>advance.
>
> -Marc
>
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