Re: Re: What should be the EFFECTIVE_USER and it's privileges ?

Perhaps there's a setuid root binary at /usr/bin/sendmail
or /usr/lib/sendmail that belongs to exim?

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 11:57 +0530, Lasantha Marian wrote:
> Dear Aaron,
> 
> I have tried several options. 
> 
> On your lead, tried using Exim's trusted_users and
trusted_groups to
> include dbmail/dbmail as user and group combination.
Then DBMail
> started reporting an error in dbmail.err log indicating
the following,
> giving the old result of not delivering the messages.
> 
> 2007-05-29 10:10:40 Failed to create spool
> file /var/spool/Exim/outgoing/input/1HstVg-0001wn-5P-D:
Permission
> denied
> 
> This does not look like an error generated by DBMail,
possibly
> generated by Exim but logged by DBMail.
> 
> Then I've changed to "EFFECTIVE_GROUP = exim"
while having
> "EFFECTIVE_USER = dbmail", still reported the
same error. Then I've
> changed the group privileges of the spool directories
as chmod g
> +rws /var/spool/Exim/outgoing/{input,msglog}, which
made the
> deliveries to dbmail-lmtpd successful.  
> 
> I am yet not fully satisfied, there are other Exim
compilation options
> (EXIMDB_DIRECTORY_MODE, EXIMDB_MODE,
INPUT_DIRECTORY_MODE,
> SPOOL_DIRECTORY_MODE, SPOOL_MODE) which I should try.
Though I do not
> plan immediately, when I try these options, will keep
you updated.
> However, for the time being, I will be using exim/exim
user and group
> combination.
> 
> Thanks for all the help offered.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Lasantha.
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
>                           Subject: 
> [Dbmail] Re: What should be the
> EFFECTIVE_USER and it's
> privileges ?
>                              Date: 
> Tue, 29/May/2007 8:31:44 AM +0550
>                              From: 
> Lasantha Marian <x72m35gmail.com>
>                                To: 
> DBMail mailinglist
> <dbmaildbmail.org>
> 
> > Dear Aaron,
> > 
> > Yes I do agree with you on separate users for Exim
and DBMail. I
> > will work on it and come back to you.
> > 
> > Lasantha.
> > 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> >                          Subject: 
> > [Dbmail] Re: What should be the
> > EFFECTIVE_USER and it's
> > privileges ?
> >                             Date: 
> > Mon, 28/May/2007 9:47:46 PM +0550
> >                             From: 
> > Aaron Stone <aaronserendipity.cx>
> >                               To: 
> > DBMail mailinglist
> > <dbmaildbmail.org>
> > 
> > > On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 16:58 +0530, Lasantha
Marian wrote:
> > >   
> > > > /usr/local/Exim/bin/exim -C
/usr/local/Exim/etc/exim-queue.conf
> > > >     
> > > 
> > > I thought about this some more, and I don't
think this is correct.
> > > Doesn't exim have a sendmail emulator? This
chapter looks relevant:
> > > 
> > > http://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_ht
ml/ch05.html
> > > 
> > > If you don't mind playing with your
configuration a little bit more, I
> > > think it will be preferable to have DBMail
and Exim running as separate
> > > users.
> > > 
> > > Aaron
> > > 
> > >
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