Anyone use exim?

Mike Szumlinski szumlins@pilot.msu.edu
Fri, 3 Nov 00 15:13:14 -0500


Okay...I don't get the suid
I get:
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  root      1239996 Aug 18 13:16 /usr/sbin/exim

do I just chmod the file? How does one give a program suid root?

-Mike

>That's not the way to tell whether a program is suid root.  Use
>"ls -l", for instance:
>
>blp:~(0)$ ls -l /usr/sbin/exim
>-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     root       447000 Oct 21 20:16 /usr/sbin/exim
>   ^ this `s' indicates suid.
>
>You *want* exim to be suid, by the way.


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