Re: [exim] Spurious permission denied error

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Συντάκτης: Evgeniy Berdnikov
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Προς: exim-users
Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] Spurious permission denied error
On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 08:12:30AM +0100, Russell King via Exim-users wrote:
> I believe so - exim is being called from a perl script running as the
> user stated in the log line thusly:
>
>     /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t

...
> > If you have root, the moral equivalent of
> >
> > # service exim stop && exim -d+all -bd 2>&1 | tee log
> > ...
> > ctrl-c
> > # service exim start
> > # less log
>
> How does that help when the process that accepted the message and
> delivered it was started by the user concerned, and the message
> was not handled by the daemonised exim?


Write a wrapper over /usr/sbin/sendmail which should start exim
as root and with additional debug flags.

> Due to the implemented security on setuid processes started by non-root
> users, I don't think I can.


If you have root access to this machine, you can do anything.
If you are not, just delegate this work to sysadmin.
--
Eugene Berdnikov