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- From: marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier)
- Subject: Re: known problem with email...buy why?
- Message-ID: <marcf.725838971@yorku.ca>
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- Organization: York University
- References: <1992Dec31.083623.28576@r-node.gts.org> <1992Dec31.133518.7411@sfu.ca> <marcf.725824735@yorku.ca> <1992Dec31.191131.25534@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 21:56:11 GMT
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- pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
-
- >Here is a shot in the dark: doesn't a process have to be running as
- >root to use "chown"? Elm is sgid mail.
-
- I just tested your shot in the dark, except that it isn't elm
- that creates the mailbox, it is smail...so I chown'd smail so that
- it had the suid set...still owned by the user who sent it :(
-
- I just tried suid'ing elm also...that still doesn't allow you
- to read the folder.
-
- This is most curious :( as was stated, the 'mail' command reads it
- without a problem (even though the user doesn't own themailbox), but
- elm doesn't...with same permissions.
-
- Question: Does anyone have this running successfully? Straight
- off the SLS distribution, without recompilng anything?
-
- Marc
-