From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 1 07:58:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA11709 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 07:58:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uz.ComCAT.COM (uz.ComCAT.COM [204.170.64.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA11704 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 07:58:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jerryr@ComCAT.COM) Received: from uw.comcat.com (uw [204.170.64.249]) by uz.ComCAT.COM (8.8.8/8.8.8/sol2/mh/19980701) with ESMTP; id KAA28481; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 10:54:27 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost by uw.comcat.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1/sol2/clnt/19981012) with SMTP id KAA21929; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 10:54:23 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: uw.comcat.com: jerryr owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 10:54:22 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry X-Sender: jerryr@uw To: cjclark@home.com cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pine inbox "Read Only" In-Reply-To: <199812010504.AAA05183@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This is starting to get really old. I just installed pine4 /just/ to > test. OK, here's some permissions, > > % ls -la /var/mail/ > drwxrwxr-x 2 bin mail 512 Oct 15 00:50 . > drwxr-xr-x 18 root wheel 512 Oct 5 21:04 .. > -rw------- 1 cjc cjc 33868 Nov 30 23:43 cjc > -rw------- 1 root wheel 0 Nov 9 02:03 root > % ls -la `which pine` > -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 1814528 Nov 30 23:41 /usr/local/bin/pine > > OK, as we see, and as I have been saying, the stuff about needing a > setuid or setgrp for the pine executable is incorrect. When the user > invokes pine, IT HAS THE USER'S PRIVILEGES. Since the user owns his > mailbox with read-write set, pine can do whatever it wants. > > Now, another very valid point mentioned is that perhaps pine cannot > write to a temporary file in a certain location, gets confused, and > goes to read-only mode. Now, if the manpage is to be trusted, these > are the files pine uses, Crist, The problem was a very dumb mistake as a new user on my part. The permission on /tmp were set to 755, although it was dumb I'll chalk it up as a learning experience (not to say I don't feel like an idiot!) ;) Thanks for all your help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message