Running a mailer as root??

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From: Sandy Bendremer
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 14:55

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I am running sendmail 4.1 on System 5 Rel 4 (ouch!).  I have a special 
mailer that must be run as root (both real and effective UID).  Although
sendmail is SUID root on our system, when it runs, the real UID is the
user sending the mail.  Although the mailer is a shell script (where I
have some control), ultimately a canned executable is run and it must
be root!  I know sendmail has a default user option and the 'S' mailer
flag, but none of these seems to do anything.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Is there any detailed sendmail documentation on the net??

Thanks in advance,

Sandy
sandy@world.std.com

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Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!world!sandyb
From: sandyb@world.std.com (Sandy Bendremer)
Subject: Running a mailer as root??
Message-ID: <BsKHGA.9zr@world.std.com>
Summary: Running a mailer as root!
Keywords: mailer, sendmail, root
Organization: AnyWare Associates -- Boston, MA
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 14:55:19 GMT
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