[CentOS] Sendmail with TLS, permission problem
Ian Forde
ian at duckland.org
Tue Aug 12 09:42:51 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 12:38 +0300, Jussi Hirvi wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt (ra+centos at br-online.de) kirjoitteli (12.8.2008 12:21):
> >> Thanks for quick reply. That didn't help yet. The error message in maillog
> >> is still the same: "sendmail.pem unsafe: Permission denied". The directory
> >> perms are now:
> >> [root at mail mail]# ls -ld / /etc /etc/mail /etc/mail/certs
> >> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Mar 29 2007 /
> >> drwxr-xr-x 96 root root 12288 Aug 12 04:02 /etc
> >> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug 12 12:14 /etc/mail
> >> dr-x------ 2 mail mail 4096 Aug 11 14:42 /etc/mail/certs
> >
> > IIRC sendmail checks from /etc/mail downwards, so /etc/mail is open too
> > wide still.
>
> On another machine (Fecore Core 3, Sendmail 8.13) the /etc/mail perms are
> 755 too, and it works - thoug there is no SMTP-AUTH on that machine.
>
> I tried it, but the error message in maillog persists after Sendmail
> restart. The perms are now:
>
> [root at mail mail]# ls -ld / /etc /etc/mail /etc/mail/certs
> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Mar 29 2007 /
> drwxr-xr-x 96 root root 12288 Aug 12 04:02 /etc
> drwx------ 5 root root 4096 Aug 12 12:37 /etc/mail
> dr-x------ 2 mail mail 4096 Aug 11 14:42 /etc/mail/certs
> [root at mail mail]# ls -l /etc/mail/certs/
> total 1924
> -rw------- 1 mail mail 1371 Aug 11 12:15 cacert.pem
> -rw------- 1 mail mail 963 Aug 11 12:15 cakey.pem
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1952422 Aug 11 14:26 revoke.crl
> -rw------- 1 mail mail 2258 Aug 11 12:16 sendmail.pem
>
> I cannot help thinking that this is *not* actually about the permissions -
> it must be about something else.
In addition to doing 'chmod u-w sendmail.pem', change the ownership to
root:root on all of those files... sendmail drops privs down to smmsp by
default...
-I
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