Re: mailq question

2001-12-19 Thread Alvin Oga
h ya jijo put mailq as an app that jijo can run in the sudo.conf file ( ie.. check into sudo ) have fun alvin On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Johann Spies wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:39:03PM +0530, Jijo Jose A wrote: > > hi all > > i still used exim as MTA. how can i run 'mailq ' without

Re: mailq question

2001-12-19 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 01:39:03PM +0530, Jijo Jose A wrote: > hi all > i still used exim as MTA. how can i run 'mailq ' without as root . In the > normal user it seems to 'exim: permission denied' will occured. You can add the user to the group "mail" but I am not sure about the security risk in

Re: mailq

2001-09-09 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:02:34PM +1000, Davor Balder wrote: > No, it's not a security risk... for the reasons you mentioned... just > edit permissions in usual manner... There is no need to alter permissions to change this behaviour. Setting queue_list_requires_admin to false in /etc/exim.conf

Re: mailq

2001-09-09 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:29:50AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Greetings. > > mailq is linked to exim, so the mailq command is just a shortcut to do a > queue check. Is it a security risk to permit normal users to check the mailq, > because if I try it as a non-root user, I get "p

Re: mailq

2001-09-09 Thread Davor Balder
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:29:50AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > Greetings. > > mailq is linked to exim, so the mailq command is just a shortcut to do a > queue check. Is it a security risk to permit normal users to check the mailq, > because if I try it as a non-root user, I get "pe