Permission Problem

[Nils Kassube]

Bill vance wrote:
> Still the same old same old, no change at all.  Here's what chmod did,
> though:
> 
> drw-rw-rw- 15 root root   4096 Aug 10 01:39 spool
> drwxr-xr-x  2 root        users       20480 Aug 11 01:41 mail
> -rw-rw---- 1 snd           mail  270500 Aug 10 01:38 snd

That's a bit strange because in another mail you wrote that it is a 
fresh install of 12.04. However a clean install of 12.04 doesn't have 
the group "users" AFAIK.

Here are the perms of the /var/mail directory on any of the machines I 
have checked including the 12.04 liveCD:

drwxrwsr-x  2 root mail     4096 Mar  1  2013 mail/

To get the same permissions you should run these commands:

sudo chown root:mail /var/spool/mail
sudo chmod 2775 /var/spool/mail

And the individual user files have these permissions on my machine:

-rw------- 1 nils mail 495 Aug 11 20:54 nils
-rw------- 1 root mail   0 Apr  3  2011 root

Finally the directory / symlink mail in /var and /var/spool are 
reversed, i.e. usually there is a directory /var/mail and a symlink 
/var/spool/mail -> /var/mail. Anyway, that last part shouldn't matter, 
but it is unusual.


Nils