On Jul 24 23:42, D. Boland wrote: > [...] > Sendmail checks if the user's home directories are group- or world > writable. It does this with 'stat'. If Sendmail is running in 'crude' > mode (main program and children running as the Sendmail 'smmsp' user, > made admin), stat returns the right file mode for my home directory > (rwxr-xr-x). The email is delivered. > > If I have Sendmail running in preferred mode (main program as > cyg_server, children running as 'smmsp', removed from admin group), > stat returns the wrong mode (rwxrwxrwx). As a consequence, Sendmail > refuses to deliver email. > > Can I do anything about this?
That shouldn't happen. Unless your home dir is on FAT or FAT32 and you're using the wrong umask. For a start, can you try this: Login as user smmsp twice, once with admin privs, once without. Each time, run the following command: $ strace -o stat.trace stat <your home dir> And send the output of stat, as well as the two generated trace files here. This might give us a clue. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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