Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 10:54:22 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry <jerryr@ComCAT.COM> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pine inbox "Read Only" Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9812011049090.21530-100000@uw> In-Reply-To: <199812010504.AAA05183@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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> 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
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