From: alovell@kerberos.demon.co.uk (Anthony Lovell) Subject: SLS-Permission-Drama (elm/mail) Date: 4 Nov 1992 19:50:25 GMT
In article <michaelw.720833018@mcshh.hanse.de> michaelw@mcshh.Hanse.DE writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>I am using the SLS-Package, and if anyone has full rights on /usr/spool/mail,
>all does seem to work well.
>
>Only anyone can delete anyones mail then. Not good.
>
>So I gave elm the group mail, it was alread set "sgid", and I gave
>/usr/spool/mail the group mail.
>
>So anyone should read his mail with elm, right? Does not work, it says
>"cannot open folder /var/spool/mail/michaelw for reading"
>
>Have I missed some information?
>
>Awaiting, Michael Will
>
>
I've had this problem ,chown michaelw.maik michaelw
and the same for any other users mailbox just use their logname
anthony
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