HELP! Sendmail 8.12.9 problems up the wazzoo on FreeBSD 4.3....

[Steve Camp]

Hi Danny,

Thanks for the reply.  I believe I did.  To your knowledge, should the
following work:

    city.example.com# grep smmsp /etc/passwd
    smmsp:*:25:25:Sendmail Queue:/nonexistent:/nonexistent

    city.example.com# grep smmsp /etc/group
    smmsp:*:25:

Or will the /nonexistent home directory and /nonexistent bogus shell entry
cause problems?

--
Steve Camp
steve at camp.com
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:47:12PM +0100, Danny Horne wrote:

> Steve Camp was once thought to have said:
> 
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am sending / posting this message to
> >
> > 	FreeBSD questions mailing list
> > 	comp.mail.sendmail newsgroup
> > 	sendmail mailing list
> > 	possibly other comp.unix.bsd.* newsgroups
> >
> > I am quite stumped.  Any and all help is welcomed.  I will be working on this
> > problem all day.  Please feel free to contact me directly at 'steve at camp.com'
> > if you'd like to help me figure this puzzle out.
> >
> Did you create the smmsp user / group as part of the upgrade?  Required from
> 8.12.0 -
> 
> 8.12.0/8.12.0   2001/09/08
>         *NOTICE*: The default installation of sendmail does not use
>                 set-user-ID root anymore.  You need to create a new user and
>                 a new group before installing sendmail (both called smmsp by
>                 default).  The installation process tries to install
>                 /etc/mail/submit.cf and creates /var/spool/clientmqueue by
>                 default.  Please see sendmail/SECURITY for details.
> 
> --
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