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- From: rao@cse.uta.edu (Rao Venkatesh Simha)
- Subject: Permissions on MAIL directory... URGENT!
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- Organization: Computer Science Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:19:33 GMT
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- Hi,
- I compiled elm2.4 on both Sun stations and HP's. I
- HAVE to set 'rwx' permissions for the Owner, Group and Other fields for
- the mail directory ie. /usr/spool/mail in case of SUNs. Further
- individual user mailboxes in the /usr/spool/mail/ directory have 'rw'
- for Owner ONLY. This prevents others from peeking into one's mail.
- BUT, one could just delete the whole mail directory i.e
- /usr/spool/mail/ because of the permissions.
- NOW, I would like to set mail directory to 755 or 775.
- If I do it I get a message saying :
-
- Can't create lock file! Need write permission in "/usr/spool/mail/".
-
- Kindly tell me (ASAP) what I need to do to have /usr/spool/mail/ with
- 775 or 755 permissions.
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Rao.
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