Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 19:54:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: "Victor M. Carranza G." <victor@usac.edu.gt> Cc: FreeBSD Questions mailing list <questions@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How does SUID and SGID work? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980429195312.13810K-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980429103632.9286A-100000@mp-dbs.mp.intralex>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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