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Subject: Re: problems with the delivery in majordomo
From: Dan Liston <dliston @ netscape . com>
Organization: iPlanet eCommerce Solutions, A Sun|Netscape Alliance
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 19:01:42 -0500
To: Mike Warne <mwarne @ pihana . com>
Cc: Edgar Camacho Paz <ecamacho @ concytec . gob . pe>, majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
References: <D8F55155780AD41180CD009027DC87F9FA43A4@hawaiibdc.hnl-sales1.int.pihana.com>

This is very dangerous security wise.  You are better offer creating the 
security that sendmail wants rather than disabling what it does not have.

This is easily done by removing the world/group writable bit from the 
directories leading to your lists directory.

Dan Liston

> See:
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Majordomo-MajorCool-HOWTO/
>  
> Check the section 2, configuring sendmail..
> It is a security feature with the newer sendmail servers, you can over-ride it in your sendmail.cf file..  Using the line:
>  
> O DontBlameSendmail=GroupWritableAliasFile
>  
>  
> However there are other changes you may need also.. See the web site for info.
>  
> Mike Warne
> mwarne@pihana.com
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: Edgar Camacho Paz [mailto:ecamacho@concytec.gob.pe]
>       Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 6:38 AM
>       To: majordomo-users@GreatCircle.COM
>       Subject: RV: problems with the delivery in majordomo
> 
> 
>       Hi Friend I am a new user of Majordomo. I am from Peru
>       I set up this program as the manual indicated me, I can create a new list and subscribe self-users, however, when I want to send a
>       email to list-name@xxx.com it canīt delivery to the emails which allow it. Then I put tail -f /var/log/maillog and show me a
>       message  DSN:include: /usr/majordomo/lists/list-name .............Cannot open /usr/majordomo/lists/nombre_de_ la_lista : World
>       writable directory,
>       what can I do for the solution of this problen? 
>       I thank your helpness.
>       Your faithfully
>       Note: I have sendmail as email server
>       Ing. Edgar Camacho Paz
>       Administrador de la Red de CONCYTEC
>       ecamacho@concytec.gob.pe
>       Tel. 511 2251150 ext 146
>       Cel 511 9240204



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