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- From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
- Subject: Re: known problem with email...buy why?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.090842.21488@sfu.ca>
- Sender: news@sfu.ca
- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <marcf.725824735@yorku.ca> <1992Dec31.191131.25534@sol.UVic.CA> <marcf.725838971@yorku.ca>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 09:08:42 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- In article <marcf.725838971@yorku.ca> marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
- >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?
-
- The wierd thing about it is that I've had it working perfectly once,
- before I ahd to reinstall my system. But after using 'chown <username>
- /usr/spool/mail/username' a few times, it started to work. But quite
- frankly, it was a freak one.
-
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