RES: [rt-users] Can't do setuid

[Presciliano dos Santos Neto]

Bruce,

I've installed majordomo wrapper, but I'm not sure how to use it to solve my
problem. Can you please point me in the right direction ?

Thanks,

Presciliano

> ----- Mensagem original -----
> De:		Bruce Campbell [SMTP:bruce_campbell at ripe.net]
> Enviada em:		Segunda-feira, 3 de Dezembro de 2001 20:49
> Para:		Phil Homewood
> Cc:		Presciliano dos Santos Neto; 'rt-users at lists.fsck.com'
> Assunto:		Re: [rt-users] Can't do setuid
> 
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Phil Homewood wrote:
> 
> > Presciliano dos Santos Neto wrote:
> > > I'm running RT on Conectiva Linux, so I chmoded u+s /usr/bin/suidperl:
> > >
> > > However, I still get the following error when sending an e-mail to the
> > > queue:
> > >
> > > Can't do setuid
> >
> > Assuming nothing is removing the suid bit on that executable,
> > you may have the same problem as has been reported under
> > Slackware. See
> >
> > http://www.helgrim.com/rtdocs/faq.html#71
> 
> Hrmmmm... sounds like a job for something like the majordomo setuid
> wrapper program.. ultra-tiny setuid compiled program whose only function
> is to invoke a perl script with the appropriate settings.
> 
> You could probably use the majordomo wrapper program, recompiling to use
> the rt group, an rt dummy user, and HOME being /path/to/rt2/bin .
> 
> ( No, I'm not staying up just to read rt-users )
> 
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