Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <066b01c2264a$a69911c0$eb6610ac@lefeuvrewk2> From: "Corwin" To: Cc: "Pierre A. Humblet" References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 20020705221649 DOT 00851490 AT mail DOT attbi DOT com> Subject: Re: exim and ntsec Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 08:42:38 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Thanks for your answer Pierre .. Here is my exim.log when I try to run it from service. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- CYGWIN = "ntsec". Root / mapped to F:\cygwin. Starting uid 18 gid 18 root_uid 1001 exim_uid 1001 exim_gid 513 Exim version 4.04 uid=18 gid=18 pid=2508 L=834cd8 D=fff7577f probably GDBM (native mode) Exim has no root privilege: uid=18 gid=18 euid=18 egid=18 changed uid/gid: forcing real = effective uid=18 gid=18 auxiliary group list: 0 LOG: MAIN PANIC DIE Exim configuration file /usr/local/exim/configure has the wrong owner, group, or mode search_tidyup called >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Exim pid=2508 terminating with rc=1 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- I really don't understand, as you can see owner and group id are SYSTEM. Permissions on configure are as follow: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- -rw-r--r-- 1 18 18 21262 Jul 2 11:58 configure ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- Owned by SYSTEM, readable/writable by SYSTEM and readable only for others. Here it is .. I'm looking further to check out what's wrong ... This may be also a CYGWIN permission problem... (This is not the first problem I have when using ntsec with a domain user) Thanks again .. Thomas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 4:16 AM Subject: Re: exim and ntsec > "Corwin" wrote > > >Forgive my lack of knowledge. I saw the Exim has no root privilege message > >but what I can't explain (And I am sure you can) is why I got the same > >message when launching exim with ntsec disabled and why It is working well > >then ... > > Thomas > > I don't see this message without ntsec! Running without ntsec is all > you need if you don't need to setuid to access directories and to set > permissions. > To run under ntsec, start exim from cygrunsrv. It is coded to recognize > uid 18. > If you have problems, add the arguments -c -d (in cygrunsrv -I.. -a "...") > and look at the debug output in /var/log/exim.log, in addition to the > logfiles. > > I assume you fixed the permissions problems of configure (previous messages). > With ntsec it must be owned by SYSTEM and other users cannot have write > access. > > Pierre > > P.S.: Please cc me on this, I don't subscribe to the list. > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > ______________________________________________________________________________ ifrance.com, l'email gratuit le plus complet de l'Internet ! vos emails depuis un navigateur, en POP3, sur Minitel, sur le WAP... http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/email.emailif -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/