On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 10:35:57AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hey guys. I just installed Mandrake 6.0, and things seem to be a little
> different. Mutt, or any other mail program for that matter, doesn't have
> permission to write to /var/spool/mail/<userid> like in RedHat 5.1. Mutt
> originally was group mail, with the group SUID bit set. I tried the same thing
> with the version of mutt that comes with Mandrake, mutt-0.95.5us-2mdk, and mutt
> complained that it doesn't want to run with priviledges.
> How should this be set up properly?
This is one way to solve it...
Change the permissions on /var/spool/mail from 775 to 1777,
that way Mutt can write to it without being sgid, but only file
owners can delete their own mailboxes.
chmod 1777 /var/spool/mail
> Thanks,
> Mike
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> Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Mike
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