Bug 42792
Summary: | sendmail would not forward to a program | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Dmitri A. Sergatskov <dasergatskov> |
Component: | sendmail | Assignee: | Florian La Roche <laroche> |
Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.1 | CC: | stephen.walton |
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Hardware: | i386 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2001-07-15 04:07:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
Dmitri A. Sergatskov
2001-05-30 04:33:56 UTC
This is just a permissions issue. Sendmail will refuse to forward to programs if your .forward is group or world writable. This is because it lets anyone with write access to your .forward file run any program as you (a *huge* security risk). To fix, just "chmod go-w $HOME/.forward" No it is not a (file) permission issue. It was chmod 600. This is most likely RedHat "improving" on sendmail default configuration. After I replaced sendmail with postfix, vacation works. I hereby confirm dima's bug report and that his workaround (replace sendmail with postfix) works. RH 7.1, clean install. "chmod 0600 ~/.forward" does not help. sendmail has more checks for permission problems and everything works fine, if I test these things here. Florian La Roche |