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Smail 3.1.29.1: directory permission problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raj Mathur)
Fri Dec 22 04:54:02 1995
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 95 07:35 IST(+0530)
From: raju@gratis.xgroup.ernet.in (Raj Mathur)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Cc: linux-apps@vger.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: raju@xgroup.ernet.in
After compiling and some testing of Smail 3.1.29.1 on Linux I came
across this permissions problem:
If you create a new user on the system, that user cannot receive mail
until you manually create an empty mail file for him/her with the
proper permissions. The issue seems to be that Smail cannot create
files in the mail spool directory (/var/spool/mail on my system) since
it sets it's UID and GID to that of the mail receiver before trying to
open the file (with O_CREAT set).
The mail directory is mode 775, owner root, group mail. Smail is
setuid root, of course.
While not averse to hacking Smail to get the right behaviour, I would
like to know if anyone else has seen (or better, fixed!) this problem.
-- Raju
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