Dear Steffen, please see comments below.
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on 12/02/2015 12:22: > Hello, i'm the codebase maintainer of S-nail, > <snip> > > S-nail ships with a special, privilege-separated program that must > be installed SETUID root; it seems Debian installs this program as > "/usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep". Doing "$ ls -latr" on this > should give output like > > -r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 21856 Sep 11 16:09 s-nail-privsep* > This was -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 10104 Nov 27 06:08 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep on my system. I upgraded from heirloom-mailx. May I ask where s-nail tries to write the "dotfile"? As far as I remember, mailx didn't need the sticky root bit before. > i.e., SETUID root, executable for anyone, "$ chmod 4555 FILE" as > root (via super / sudo / su as necessary) will do. Yes, with the sticky bit set the mailx command works here. But is it really necessary? > Note that v14.8.5 doesn't take into account readonly filesystems: > v14.9 will special treat errors caused by this condition instead. > It really should work fine otherwise? > > --steffen > Regards, Jörg-Volker.
