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- From: michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will)
- Subject: Re: SLS-Permission-Drama (elm/mail)
- Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:26:23 GMT
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- terjeve@ifi.uio.no (Terje Vernly) writes:
- >You'll have to set the sticky-bit on the mail-directory:
- >chmod 1777 /usr/spool/mail
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- Yes, possible, but it still leaves the question, why this should not work:
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- drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 192 Nov 5 01:07 mail
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- elm and fastmail and newmail and printmail and wnewmail are of group mail,
- elm is sgid. why can't it write into the mail-directory then?
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- Confused, Michael Will
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