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Re: Who can pipe messages to a program?





> > <local pipe......@......sztaki.hu |/usr/local/bin/procmail 60001>:
> > mail to program disallowed
> > 
> > Can you help with this?
> 
> I know that this message can be generated after simultaneous security 
> checks in bin/router and bin/local. I.e, I had this effect when db 
> directory had "group write" permissions: I wanted to allow whole root 
> group to edit mail configs. And after that my majordomo failed to work 
> just with this diagnosis. I do not know exactly which permission 
> masks are checked, but many are. Good luck...

Yes, in the meantime we found some old messages in the archive about this.
The problem was that the .forward file accidentally got group read/write
permissions.

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  Andras Micsik              micsik@sztaki.hu
  MTA SZTAKI Hungary         http://www.sztaki.hu/~micsik