Re: exim 4.10-2: exim.conf Permissions

["Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>]

FYI, the message below is from the cygwin list.

It looks like post install isn't privileged
even when running setup as Administrator.
There is no problem with the exim package itself.

I have been unable to reproduce the symptoms as I
don't see the administrator login window when I
run setup as a normal user on NT4.

Pierre

>From: "Youssef Eldakar" <youssef.eldakar@bibalex.org>
>To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org>
>Subject: Re: exim 4.10-2: exim.conf Permissions
>Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 09:24:21 +0200
>
>I used setup.exe to select exim. (I ran setup.exe as a normal user, but
>entered Administrator password in the beginning of setup.) I did not edit
>exim.conf at all.
>
>I just did `sh -x /etc/postinstall/exim.sh`, and it generated exim.conf with
>the right mode (664) - strange.  <Pierre: Not strange. He was logged in as admin.>
>
>Thank you.
>
>Youssef Eldakar
>Bibliotheca Alexandrina
>Shatby, Alexandria 21526
>Tel: +20-3-4839999
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>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre.Humblet@ieee.org>
>To: "Youssef Eldakar" <youssef.eldakar@bibalex.org>
>Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 7:08 PM
>Subject: Re: exim 4.10-2: exim.conf Permissions
>
>
>> Youssef Eldakar wrote:
>> >
>> > The exim 4.10-2 package sets /etc/exim.conf to mode 777. Attempting to
>start
>> > exim (`exim -bd`) fails with the error:
>> >
>> > 'Exim configuration file /etc/exim.conf has the wrong owner, group, or
>mode'
>> >
>> > The fix is to set /etc/exim.conf to mode 755.
>>
>> Could you explain exactly what you did to get that result?
>> Did you edit the file?
>>
>> exim.conf can be created automatically from two places:
>> 1) during setup, by /etc/postinstall/exim.sh,
>>    if it doesn't exist already.
>> 2) by a user running /bin/exim-config
>> As far as I can see the mode is set to 644 in both cases.
>>
>> If it happened during setup, please try the following:
>> cd /etc
>> mv exim.conf exim.conf.bak
>> sh -x postinstall/exim.sh.done
>>
>> You should get a new exim.conf with the right modes.
>> Send me the output of the sh if it looks interesting.
>>
>> Pierre
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