Disabling setuid in vm when playing messages

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Hi all

I'm using vm to send voicemails. Every user on the machine should be
able to send those messages. It seems that it is not possible to disable
the setuid-stuff when a file is played. I deleted the entries in the
config file once, but without much luck.

This is a problem for me since vm dies when it cannot change its uid to
that one defined in voice.conf. I tried to set the setuid-flag for vm so
it could be executed by everyone as user phone (and I tried also root)
and it worked... at least until the message was finished. Then, vm
switches back to the original(real-UID instead of previous effective
uid?) user and not the user defined with the setuid-flag. And because of
that, it does not have any permissions to delete the lock file created
by the setuid-flag-user.

I tried to comment the stuff in libutil/access.c out, because I don't
need that user changing stuff anyway, but vm does not seem to work
anymore now :)...

I have no answering machine, I only want to send messages to some
phone...

What do I have to change to make this work for me?

I'm using vm of the mgetty 1.1.21 package on Solaris 2.6.

Thank you very much.

Regards
 Stefan