Bug 9846 - Normal user can change mqueue processing in sendmail
Summary: Normal user can change mqueue processing in sendmail
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: sendmail
Version: 6.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-02-29 02:31 UTC by untersta
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-03-04 18:41:43 UTC
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Description untersta 2000-02-29 02:31:00 UTC 
At our server one of our users sent an undeliverable mail
with /bin/mail and with
/usr/sbin/sendmail -q1m
added a daemon.

I was quite surprised when I saw in the mailog, that our server
tried 2000 times within one day to reach the unknown host. I was also
surprised a normal user can start sendmail as a daemon...

I don't have time right now to look at that closer. I set the permissions
of sendmail from rwsrwsr-x to rwxrwxr-x and changed the /var/spool/mqueue
from rwxrwxrwx (as linuxconf creates it) to rwx-wx-wx.

A normal user can yet still start a daemon, but sendmail doesn't process
the mails in mqueue any more. Yet you can still use mail.

Is sendmail supposed to work like that?
Comment 1 David Lawrence 2000-02-29 15:59:59 UTC 
Assigning to a developer.This is an sendmail related issue and not a bugzilla related one so I am
refiling it under product: Red Hat Linux and component: sendmail. Then the
proper developer will be able to look at it.
Comment 2 Cristian Gafton 2000-03-04 18:41:59 UTC 
This is normal behavior
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