* Randy Kramer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020827 19:21]: > file /home/joe/mail/test.txt > -rw-r--rw- 1 joe joe 8224 Aug 27 20:50 test.txt > > dir /home > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 Feb 6 1996 ./ > > dir /home/joe > drwxr-xr-x 32 joe joe 2008 Aug 26 20:03 ./ > > dir /home/joe/mail > drwx---r-x 2 joe joe 496 Aug 27 20:48 ./ > > With the above situation, dummy could not access file > /home/joe/mail/test.txt.
Given this setup, I don't know why anyone couldn't read test.txt. > Well, I ran into a bunch of roadblocks in bending Procmail to my will. > Sort of surprising for a system that supposedly allows you to shoot > yourself in the foot if you want to. Best/most expedient resolution I > came up with was to create a dummy user (dummy) and let him place > mail directly into some of joe's mail folders. It sounds like you might be running into procmail's security requirements. Check man procmail, around line 495 where it specifies that, for example, $HOME/.procmailrc cannot be group-writable or in a group-writable directory. -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com & linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML
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