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- From: derwin@mach2.wlu.ca (Daryl Erwin)
- Subject: Re: ELM 2.4PL6 - Big problem! Changing permissions on /usr/mail
- References: <Bx9BHq.E1x@mach1.wlu.ca> <1992Nov10.161012.8726@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
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- Organization: Wilfrid Laurier University
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:22:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.161012.8726@oakhill.sps.mot.com> dwolfe@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Dave Wolfe) writes:
- >In <Bx9BHq.E1x@mach1.wlu.ca> derwin@mach2.wlu.ca (Daryl Erwin) writes:
- >
- >>HELP! HELP!
- >
- >>I think there is a big problem with elm 2.4 (not necessarily just pl6).
- >
- >>Our directories in /usr/mail/ (users mail directories) group permissions
- >>are being chamed from 'mail' to some other group (their own). This stops
- >>mail from getting through and causes bounces.
- >
- >>Has anybody else seen this. How can this be fixed el pronto!
- >
- >It'd be nice to know what system you're seeing this on. We can
- >reproduce this problem here on our AIX (3.2) systems when a user edits
- >his/her mailbox. At least vi and emacs indicate they have problems
- >restoring permissions to the mailbox when rewriting it and the result
- >is that the group ownership of the file reverts to the user's group
- >instead of mail. This occurs even though the setgid flag is set on the
- >mail spool directory! Just editing the mailbox works fine, but editing
- >it from elm fails to restore the group ownership. Go figure! I knew
- >AIX was totally broken but this is ridicules. Our work-around is to
- >disable mailbox editing during configuration.
- >
- >Instead of all the AIX gurus out there flaming me, how about trying to
- >convert me by answering the following: what should the permissions be
- >for /usr/spool/mail? "drwxrwsr-x bin mail" or something else? Or,
- >Oracle forbid, does ACEs enter into the fray?
-
- Dave,
- I am on Sequent running PTX. I thought the problem was in leavembox but
- dont think thats it - a small problem in fileio where chown(..) must
- ignore the results 'cuz chown must be run by superuser on this machine.
-
- So....
- The question still remains -- How can my mailbox be switched to my
- group and not restored to 'mail' group?
-
- Anybody else have ideas..? Thanks elm group developers for your efforts
- but this problem (allbeit hard to reproduce still exists).
- --
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