Re: Correct permissions?
At 4:56 PM -0500 2/27/03, Chuck Yerkes wrote: The pop daemon must be able to write to the /var/mail DIRECTORY. Oh, and with those permissions on your Mailbox (why it's named Mailbox is beyond me) allows ANYone to read your mail and anyone in group USER to write (change) your mail. Usually, the group is set to 'mail' not 'user'; Qpopper normally runs with group 'mail' and the UID of the user. This normally allows it to access the spool directory. -- Randall Gellens Opinions are personal;facts are suspect;I speak for myself only -- Randomly-selected tag: --- The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion. --John Lawton
Re: Correct permissions?
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:45:45PM -, Bart wrote: > I receive the following error message when attempting to collect email: > -ERR [SYS/TEMP] Failed to create /var/mail/.bart.pop with uid 1000, gid 0. > Change permissions. > > What should the correct permissions be? It's the directory permissions for /var/mail you need to look at. (If the temp file should not be created there, you have a configuration problem.) > Currently they're as follows: > -rwxrwxr-x 1 bart users 5753 Feb 27 20:09 Mailbox That's in your home directory, not in /var/mail, I'd assume. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "If you ride fast enough, the Specialist can't catch you." "What's the Specialist?" Samantha says. "The Specialist wears a hat," says the babysitter. "The hat makes noises." She doesn't say anything else. Kelly Link, _The Specialist's Hat_
Re: Correct permissions?
The pop daemon must be able to write to the /var/mail DIRECTORY. Oh, and with those permissions on your Mailbox (why it's named Mailbox is beyond me) allows ANYone to read your mail and anyone in group USER to write (change) your mail. Quoting Bart ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I receive the following error message when attempting to collect email: > -ERR [SYS/TEMP] Failed to create /var/mail/.bart.pop with uid 1000, gid 0. > Change permissions. > > What should the correct permissions be? > > Currently they're as follows: > -rwxrwxr-x 1 bart users 5753 Feb 27 20:09 Mailbox > > Many thanks, > Bart
