> Ifnews/ifmail must be owned by ifmail.news and group executable (but not
> world executable), otherways the ifmail-send script will not be able to
> send you echomail.
[...]
> There is no reason to remove the x bit from binaries that are not suid, the
> user could copy them in his home and add the x bit. Because they are not
> suid a malicious user can't do any harm running them.
[...]
> Yes, sendmail with a good ifmail.m4 like mine does not needs it because it
> runs as root, but inn can't change his id like sendmail does, so the binary
> must be executable by group news (and only by that). You have to correct
> your permissions like I wrote above.
[...]
Are they correct now?
total 1526
drwxr-xr-x 2 ifmail dialer 512 Aug 24 18:51 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 bin bin 1024 Jul 24 16:29 ..
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ifmail dialer 204730 Aug 24 18:50 ifcico
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ifmail dialer 51271 Aug 24 18:50 ifindex
-r-sr-xr-- 2 ifmail news 101748 Aug 24 18:50 ifmail
-r-sr-xr-- 2 ifmail news 101748 Aug 24 18:50 ifnews
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ifmail dialer 59567 Aug 24 18:50 ifpack
-r-sr-xr-x 1 ifmail dialer 41553 Aug 24 18:50 ifstat
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ifmail dialer 96718 Aug 24 18:50 iftoss
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ifmail dialer 46140 Aug 24 18:50 ifunpack
-r-xr-xr-x 1 ifmail dialer 36939 Aug 24 18:50 nlpatch
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