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Problems with Panther? - setgroups: Operation not permitted
Authored by: morgion on Oct 25, '03 06:56:26AM

After doing a complete wipe of my drive and installing a fresh Panther, I went through the steps of trying to set this up again.

However, after everything's done, I test it by entering the following into the Terminal (after proper setup in NetInfo for 127.0.0.1, in /etc/services, and /etc/inetd.conf and my remote host):

% telnet gogeek_smtp 50025

But I get the following:

% Trying 127.0.0.1...
% Connected to localhost.
% Escape character is '^]'.
% inetd: setgroups: Operation not permitted
% Connection closed by foreign host.
What gives? I've done sudo killall -HUP inetd xinetd lookupd, but still no go!

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Problems with Panther? - setgroups: Operation not permitted
Authored by: morgion on Oct 25, '03 01:44:27PM

Oops, my bad. Not only did I accidentally start inetd as a non-root user, but inetd isn't even running by default on Panther; xinetd is!

But there are still problems; now when I try % telnet gogeek_smtp 50025, I get the following:

Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
... and after a short (3-4 second) delay...
Connection closed by foreign host.

Mail.app still can't connect to gogeek_smtp.



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Problems with Panther? - setgroups: Operation not permitted
Authored by: nyarlathotep on Jan 24, '04 11:02:18PM

I don't remember if I did anything diffrently when I set up this trink under Panter, the basic idea still works flawlessly for me. I think /etc/inetd.con is still used, so you don't need to learn the config file formats of xinetd unless you want to.



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Problems with Panther? - setgroups: Operation not permitted
Authored by: marcmac on Feb 04, '04 04:25:41AM

I just got this working in Panther. I found that the server wasn't connecting to the mail server at all, because the root user (as whom xinetd was launching ssh) was failing on a host key check.

I did sudo su -, then as root ran the ssh command by hand, told it to add the key to the known hosts, etc - and once the root user was able to log in without interaction, I didnt' have any more problems.

(One other stupid problem I had - my mail server was refusing to relay mail from 127.0.0.1)



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