On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 11:10:10AM -0800, Mark Zugsmith wrote:
> Sorry folks, I am brand new to qmail and I am just getting it up and
> running on a test box. I setup Maildir for my home directory and I am just
> wondering if root in fact is the owner for the users Maildir/ directory..
>
>
> -----snipit-------
> ls -alg Maildir/
> ls: Maildir/: Permission denied
> [mark@rati mark]$ su
> Password:
> [root@rati mark]# ls -alg Maildir/
> total 5
> drwx------ 5 root root 1024 Feb 17 11:37 .
> drwx------ 6 mark mark 1024 Feb 17 12:09 ..
> drwx------ 2 root root 1024 Feb 17 11:37 cur
> drwx------ 2 root root 1024 Feb 17 11:37 new
> drwx------ 2 root root 1024 Feb 17 11:37 tmp
>
> Do I have my ownerships and permissions completely @#$%#! up?
I don't know about completely @#$%#! up, but it's not right and won't work. As
it stands, your Maildir and its contents are owned by root. You need to chown
-R mark.mark ~mark/Maildir.
Chris
