Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jul 29 15:36, D. Boland wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > The permissions of the home folder are set to 01777 by default (S_ISVTX > > > bit!). Since we can't rely on central administration for Cygwin, this > > > allows a user to create her own homedir automatically at first start of > > > a Cygwin shell. > > > > > > You might consider to disable this full patch check in sendmail for > > > Cygwin. Is there some configuration flag, maybe? > > > > > > > If I make the 'Users' group owner of the /home folder and remove the > > world-writable > > bit, Sendmail doesn't complain anymore. I found out that everybody who is > > logged on, > > will be put in the 'Users' group anyway. > > Uhm... that works for you, but you can't rely on that for a sendmail > package. You'd have to deal with the default 01777 /home as well.
Yes, yes, I know. Cygwin shouldn't want to lock their users out of their own system. Sendmail is a real b&^ch with security. This project cost me 2 1/2 weeks straight, trying to figure out a way to accomodate its strict impersonation rules on a system which has multiple root users. But I did it. No hacking in the sendmail source code. Anyway, today I tested it succesfully on my Win7 machine (32bit Cygwin), but no complaining from Sendmail, even with a home folder which is group- and world writable. Strange. Cincerely, Daniel -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
