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Subject: Re: How do I correct this?
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 06:42:32 CST

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 04:43:56PM -0600, Mailing List Account wrote:

> Mar 31 16:16:51 rabbit postfix/sendmail[9331]: warning: sendmail is set-uid
> root, or is run from a set-uid root process
>
> And it's telling the truth ;-)
> ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 66412 Mar 11 14:16 /usr/sbin/sendmail
>
> So what do I need to change? I realize I need to take away the suid bit,
> but do I need to change ownership of the file, too?

% chmod 755 /usr/sbin/sendmail 

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Ralf Hildebrandt <R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de> www.stahl.bau.tu-bs.de/~hildeb
For their next act, they'll no doubt be buying a firewall running
under NT, which makes about as much sense as building a prison out of
meringue.