From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 22 20:26:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wymple.gs.net (wymple.gs.net [198.3.156.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6197814D51 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 20:26:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sjh003@latech.edu) Received: from tito (parents.gs.net [204.252.209.218]) by wymple.gs.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id WAA08998 for ; Sun, 22 Aug 1999 22:26:00 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <37C0BF6E.1F313F9A@latech.edu> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 22:26:39 -0500 From: stephen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: unix id question X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Salutations... I'm a newbie, and i have a question, well i have severial questions, but the answer to this question i could not find in the faq... I want to set up a mail program using perl, but the owner of the file in the mial directory will only allow that user to read the info... how do i set a perl program to access the owner's mail,,, i am a super user, and i don't want to logon as that user, sence i don't have their password, nor do i wish to know their password.. just want to write the program and let it access thier files, and no one elses... Hope you can drop me a clue, or point me to a faq that can help.. Thanks StEpHeN sjh003@latech.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message