[2610] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
krb5-misc/323: krb5-send-pr tests for mailer presence with -r instead of -x
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Pomes)
Mon Dec 23 17:33:09 1996
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 14:32:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Paul Pomes <ppomes@Qualcomm.com>
Reply-To: ppomes@Qualcomm.com
To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
>Number: 323
>Category: krb5-misc
>Synopsis: krb5-send-pr test for mailer fails for unreadable executeables
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: krb5-unassigned
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: unknown
>Arrival-Date: Mon Dec 23 17:33:00 EST 1996
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Paul Pomes
>Organization:
QUALCOMM, Inc.
6455 Lusk Blvd
San Diego, CA 92121-2779
>Release: 1.0
>Environment:
Sparc-20, Solaris 2.4
System: SunOS zelkova 5.4 Generic_101945-27 sun4m sparc
>Description:
When /usr/lib/sendmail is installed mode 4511, it is unreadable by
users. The MAIL_AGENT selection code in src/util/send-pr/send-pr.sh
uses -r (is the file readable) test instead of -x (is the file
executeable). It falls through to just "sendmail -oi -t" which
fails if /usr/lib is not part of the path on a Solaris host.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install sendmail as /usr/lib/sendmail, mode 4511.
Run krb5-send-pr as a vanilla user and w.o. /usr/lib in $PATH.
After the bug report has been collected, krb5-send-pr will exit
with a 'mysterious mail failure' message.
>Fix:
Change to -x to test for executeables.
*** send-pr.sh 1996/12/23 22:31:36 1.1
--- send-pr.sh 1996/12/23 22:31:49
***************
*** 56,64 ****
# What mailer to use. This must come after the config file, since it is
# host-dependent.
MAIL_AGENT="/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t"
! if [ ! -r `echo $MAIL_AGENT|sed 's/ .*//'` ] ; then
! ( [ -r /usr/lib/sendmail ] && MAIL_AGENT="/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t" ) || \
! ( [ -r /usr/sbin/sendmail ] && MAIL_AGENT="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t " ) || \
MAIL_AGENT="sendmail -oi -t "
fi
--- 56,64 ----
# What mailer to use. This must come after the config file, since it is
# host-dependent.
MAIL_AGENT="/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t"
! if [ ! -x `echo $MAIL_AGENT|sed 's/ .*//'` ] ; then
! ( [ -x /usr/lib/sendmail ] && MAIL_AGENT="/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t" ) || \
! ( [ -x /usr/sbin/sendmail ] && MAIL_AGENT="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t " ) || \
MAIL_AGENT="sendmail -oi -t "
fi
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