Permission Problem

[Bill vance]

On 8/12/14, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Bill vance wrote:
>> On 8/11/14, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
>> > 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
>
>> I tried the two above commands you sent, but I'm not going to worry
>> about the groups just yet, as that should just make getting it to
>> work a little easier.
>> in fact, the users can now manipulate their own files again, (as well
>> as each others), but removing the group rw removes the users ability
>> to deal with their own stuff.  As I'm the only real user, and the,
>> "users", are all aliases I've subbed to various mail lists, to keep
>> the list mail segregated as to which list it came from, no biggy.
>
> Then your requirements are totally different from a standard mail setup
> where users can only read / change their own files. Maybe a simple
> change would be to add all those users to the mail group?

Long since done.

>> Unfortunately, alpine and mutt still can't find/open up the filesl
>
> Sorry, I think I can't help you there - I don't use those applications.
> But how about the program "mail"? Can that one use the files?

Permission denied.

I've even re-installed alpine from arcchive, rather than re-downloading,
and still get the same thing.  This is the pits.

Bill