Operating system name and version: OpenBSD 5.0
Version of smsd: 3.1.14
Smsd installed from: Ports tree
Name and model of a modem / phone: Huawei E220
Interface: USB

I am having an issue where I can only send SMS messages as root. Running as root, it works fine. However, whenever I try as another user, I get the following errors:

chown: /tmp/smsd_U0q8pU: Operation not permitted mktemp: cannot make temp file /var/spool/sms/outgoing/send_f1aiXR: Permission denied usage: mv [-fi] source target mv [-fi] source ... directory

and the SMS is never sent. I can work around these issues by changing the permissions on the outgoing folder to 777 and running smsd as root, however that isn't exactly a good solution, and I do still get the chown error (although the message does get sent). What is the proper way to fix this so any user can send SMS? Thanks.

Hi ibrewster!

First of all, after so many many many logs i've monitored, none of them has showed me the tmp folder.

So i'm thinking there's some error somewere in the configuration.
Besides, giving root to user to send and receive sms, its my opinion that its not going to afect the server (i think, but its my opinion).

I'll sugest to put here, part of the log to see the behavior and your smsd.log file trying to send or receive an message.

Could you do this?
MareAlta