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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 19:54:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: "Victor M. Carranza G." <victor@usac.edu.gt>
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Subject: Re: How does SUID and SGID work?
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On Wed, 29 Apr 1998, Victor M. Carranza G. wrote:

> I'm trying to get rid of a problem with PC-Pine 3.96 (IMAP mail client). 
> The problem is that it cannot write a lock file in /var/mail due to denied
> write access. In my inetd.conf file, the imapd is started as root, but ps
> reveals that the process is owned by the authenticated user, instead of
> root, once started.  Instead of making /var/mail world-writeable, I tried
> to chown root and chmod u+s imapd, but no success. It keeps taking the
> authenticated user ID. I tried to chgrp mail imapd also, 'cause the mail
> group does have write access on /var/mail, and then chmod g+s imapd, but
> got the same results. What am I doing wrong?

Hm, I have my /var/mail owned by bin:mail and have the sticky bit set on
it and imap appears to be happy.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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