On Thursday 09 August 2007, Mark Sansome wrote: >A reader of this list replied to me off-list and made this comment: >> On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Mark Sansome wrote: >> > The problem is that (running procmail as root) if I follow the >> > instructions I have found on various setup guides (including the >> > SA wiki) I am supposed to put "DROPPRIVS=yes" into >> > /etc/procmailrc. If I do that SA works fine, but procmail is >> > unable to put mail for my other users in their /var/spool/mail >> > directories. >> >> Everybody should own and have write permission to their own mailbox... > >Well, naturally. I thought... > >And then I checked. Just to be sure... > >This looks OK: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l /var/spool/mail/ >total 53240 >-rw-rw---- 1 admin mail 0 Jun 11 20:55 admin >-rw------- 1 clamav mail 76386 Apr 22 17:04 clamav >-rw-rw---- 1 wifey mail 44024789 Aug 7 10:48 wifey >-rw-rw---- 1 mark mail 4020 Aug 7 17:11 mark >-rw------- 1 root root 10316397 Aug 7 04:40 root >-rw-rw---- 1 son1 mail 24127 Apr 7 11:03 son1 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# > >So does this: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ls -l $MAIL >-rw-rw---- 1 mark mail 4020 Aug 7 17:11 /var/spool/mail/mark > >But this looks wrong...: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su wifey >Password:
You missed the su - above, which will give you wifey's rights, paths and permissions. >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ ls -l $MAIL >-rw-rw---- 1 mark mail 4020 Aug 7 17:11 /var/spool/mail/mark >[EMAIL PROTECTED] mark]$ mail >/var/spool/mail/mark: Permission denied > >(same with my other "users") > >Where is this access controlled from and how do I change it? I've tried >man mail and googling for it but so far I've drawn a blank... > >Many thanks for your help... > >Mark -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Fat people of the world unite, we've got nothing to lose!
