sendmail / not root

[Nobody's Hero]

OK, sorry to blast so many questons here, but you all are a real help.

Can I change /etc/mail and all the files under it
from
rwx r--r-- root root
to
rwx rw-r-- root somegroupname

This way a non root user has access to it by being in the 'somegroupname' group ?
Can this be done?

[F Verschuren]

i never tested this normaly if a user neet asses to this kind of files i use sudo...

if you chang it just stop/ start sendmail, if this is not giving errors an mail still works it doesn't harm the system.

[Ivan Krastev]

If you want other users to stop/start/change sendmail settings use sudo:

user ALL= /usr/bin/vi /etc/mail/*, /sbin/init.d/sendmail

regards,
ivan