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Re: [LUG] exim setuid



On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Ben Wheare wrote:
Anyone have any ideas why exim seems to keep losing its setuid root bit, as
it will run fine, then, after a while, I will get errors relating to it not
being able to setuid root?

I've had to resort to a cron job to chmod 04755 /usr/sbin/exim every so
often to keep it going for the time being...

What distro are you running? That sounds a bit like something Mandrake
msec would do as part of its regular security checks.

~Mark.


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