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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: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 06:53:22 GMT
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- michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Michael Will) writes:
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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
- And confused I was - after setting the group right it did work ;-)
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- So here is the answer: assign group mail to all mail-programs and to the
- mail-spool-dir...
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- Thank you for your help,
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- Michael Will
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