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Subject: Re: Problem with Majordomo2-alpha1
From: Brock Rozen <brozen @ torah . org>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 21:55:50 +0300 (IDT)
To: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Cc: Majordomo Workers List <majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <ufa4szdhk6m.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu>
Reply-to: Brock Rozen <brozen @ torah . org>

On 28 Apr 1998, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:

> Please give me the exact message.  I don't see anything about switching to
> any user in the code.  There is an error about 'Not running as UID
> (whatever)' but that only ensures that it is actually running as the UID
> that it is supposed to be setuid to.

Yes, that was the error.

> BR> Strange, because I was running as root.
> 
> This has nothing to do with whether or not the executable was installed
> setuid properly.  Are you using the wrappers?  What are the permissions on
> the installed executables?

I was not configured to be using the wrappers (I am now, so keep that in
mind for the last message I just sent out). 

The executables are r-s for user majordomo and it's group and r-x for
other.


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