Error on starting SASL and STARTTLS

Friday, 1 October 2004

Hi,

I've just tried to get secure smtp going on port 25 with sendmail on a
Fedora Core 2 server. After ironing out some initial problems there seems
to be one last I can't resolve. I can't get TLS to actually work. The
sendmail log show the following:

Sep 28 17:27:51 mail sendmail[8606]: error:
safesasl(/usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf) failed: World writable directory
Sep 28 17:27:51 mail sendmail[8606]: error:
safesasl(/usr/lib/sasl2/libanonymous.so.2) failed: World writable
directory
Sep 28 17:27:51 mail sendmail[8606]: error:
safesasl(/usr/lib/sasl2/libdigestmd5.so.2) failed: World writable
directory
Sep 28 17:27:51 mail sendmail[8606]: error:
safesasl(/usr/lib/sasl2/libsasldb.so.2) failed: World writable directory
Sep 28 17:27:51 mail sendmail[8606]: error:
safesasl(/usr/lib/sasl2/liblogin.so.2) failed: World writable directory
Sep 28 17:27:51 mail sendmail[8606]: error:
safesasl(/usr/lib/sasl2/libcrammd5.so.2) failed: World writable directory
Sep 28 17:27:51 mail sendmail[8606]: error:
safesasl(/usr/lib/sasl2/libplain.so.2) failed: World writable directory
Sep 28 17:27:51 mail sendmail[8691]: starting daemon (8.12.11):
SMTP+queueing@01:00:00
Sep 28 17:27:51 mail sendmail[8691]: STARTTLS=server: file
/usr/share/ssl/certs/sendmail.pem unsafe: World writable directory

I've tried making the sasl2 directory and the certs directory only
writable by root but to no avail. The files listed in sasl2 are linked and
the symbolic links do not seem to want to change with chown whatever I
try.

I'd much appreciate it if anybody could help me out here.

Kind regards,
Antonio Nunes