Re: [exim] suid permission not on 4.43?

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Vincent Danen wrote:

>
> On 18-Oct-04, at 11:55 AM, Marilyn Davis wrote:
>
> >>> I don't know what I did that could have ruined the permissions,
> >>> since,
> >>> as far as I can remember, I just copied my old Local stuff and did
> >>> make, make install.
> >>
> >> You should have done make, sudo make install. Did you forget the sudo?
> >
> > I did it all as root.
> >
> > So, for an experiment, I ripped 4.43 out and remade it. It came in
> > with proper permissions. But within an hour the s permission had
> > magically disappeared.
> >
> > I tried it on another file. Same thing.
> >
> > So the mystery is solved ... it's some Mandrake feature that I haven't
> > figured out how to disable yet.
> >
> > Exim is perfect.
>
> This is Mandrake's msec doing it's thing... it thinks that sendmail
> shouldn't have the suid bit... what it's doing is looking at
> /usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/lib/sendmail (forget which), following the
> symlink back to exim, and seeing the suid bit there and removing it.
> You can make a custom msec rule to disable this or you can turn msec
> off entirely.

What we did before was to lower the security level. So now it only
removes the suid bit once and then lets us have it the second time we
set it.

I'll disable it totally now. Enough of that frustrating waste of
time!

Thank you.

Marilyn


>
> I believe if you search the archives you should find more specifics on
> this as I recall it being brought up once or twice before.
>
>

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