Re: [exim] bad owner

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Autor: Tony Finch
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A: djh
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Assumpte: Re: [exim] bad owner
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, djh wrote:
>
> I have ran into the following problem: I have, in ignorance, tweaked
> and twiddled to get it going but have not been successfull.
>
> In this case, the user (in this case "henman") does in fact own the .forward file:
>
>    -rw-r--r-- 1 henman ?$(A$J$7?(B 135 Jun 22 15:21 /home/henman/.forward
>                           ^
>                            \ these are Japanese characters meaning "no group"
> ----
> 2006-06-22 16:14:36 Received from somename@??? H=localhost [127.0.0.1] P=esmtp S=679 id=449A435C.8000604@???
> 2006-06-22 16:14:36 henman@??? R=userforward defer (-1): bad owner for /home/henman/.forward


This is probably caused by the permissions problem explained below...

> If "other" is not given read permission I get a permission error, but it
> it set to "r" privelege, so I guess the exim deamon is running as
> "other"
>
> -rwxr-x---+ 1 henman Users 750592 May 3 10:53 /usr/bin/exim-4.62-1


chmod u+s /usr/bin/exim-4.62-1

Tony.
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