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Subject: Re: Permission problems on SunOS 4.1.3_U1
From: "John P. Rouillard" <rouilj @ terminus . cs . umb . edu>
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 19:53:29 -0400
To: reb @ xyzzy . com
Cc: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 May 1994 16:34:27 EDT." <9405182034.AA21190@Xyzzy.COM>


In message <9405182034.AA21190@Xyzzy.COM>, reb@xyzzy.com writes:
> Okay, here is more information... (and of course in trying to fix this
> I've gotten part way but now have other related problems ;-)
> 
> I'm pretty sure almost everything is set up correctly.  I know it's a
> permission problem.  Things run fine if I run them from user
> 'majordom'.  But, if I try to subscribe from a list as user 'test' I
> get errors because apparantly it's executing the wrapper as user
> 'test' ... I've tried setting the execution user & group IDs on the
> wrapper to no avail.  It's set to run as daemon.  Daemon is part of
> the majordom group.  The directories are owned by user majordom group
> majordom.  What am I overlooking? Any suggestions?
> [...]
> As noted above, I get the above when sending a subscribe message as
> 'test' ... works fine if I run it as 'majordom'

Make sure the fileystem the wrapper is on isn't mounted nosuid.

				-- John
John Rouillard

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