[courier-users] sendmail works with root but not users (#1 returns)

The remedy that Nolan provided corrected the use for non-root users (for a
time). HOWEVER, sendmail's privileges revert back over time and the owner
becomes mail again and I don't know when. I even rebooted my machine to see
if the privledges changed after reboot. They didn't as far as I could see.
So, over a period of time ... I went to lunch and behold -r-s, reverts to
-r-x. How does this happen?

[root@sharkbait bin]# ls -alt sendmail
-r-s--x--x 1 root mail 72372 Nov 23 11:12 sendmail*
[root@sharkbait bin]# ls -alt sendmail
-r-s--x--x 1 root mail 72372 Nov 23 11:12 sendmail*
[root@sharkbait bin]# ls -alt sendmail
-r-s--x--x 1 root mail 72372 Nov 23 11:12 sendmail*
[root@sharkbait bin]# ls -alt sendmail
-r-x--x--x 1 root mail 72372 Nov 23 11:12 sendmail*
[root@sharkbait bin]# chmod 4511 sendmail
[root@sharkbait bin]# ls -alt sendmail
-r-s--x--x 1 root mail 72372 Nov 23 11:12 sendmail*
[root@sharkbait bin]#

Thx. Bruce

-----Original Message-----
From: courier-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:courier-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Bruce
Johnson
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 11:49 PM
To: courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [courier-users] sendmail works with root but not users (#1 solved)
.... done

Nolan, that was the ticket. :) Thanks. Bruce

p.s. However, I don't understand how the permissions were set improperly
during installation. Now, I know what to look for the next time it happens.
thx

-----Original Message-----
From: courier-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:courier-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Nolan Pflug
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 11:15 PM
To: courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [courier-users] sendmail works with root but not users (#2
solved)

> -r-s--x--x 1 root courier 644873 Nov 23 11:12 maildrop*
> -r-x--x--x 1 root mail 72372 Nov 23 11:12 sendmail*

It needs to be "-r-s--x--x 1 root courier", the same as you see on
maildrop.



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