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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!frmug.fr.net!renux.frmug.fr.net!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Can't su or read mail: permissions broken? Date: 14 Jan 1994 00:19:53 +0100 Organization: A Happy FreeBSD-current Usenet Site Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2h4kv7$1b8@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <MARK.684.2D340D59@ardsley.business.uwo.ca> <2h1nnn$gkk@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In article <2h1nnn$gkk@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >>Giving /var/mail 777 fixes it but giving it read/write for the world does >>not. The X bit must be turned on. I have tried all sorts of combos and >>only 777 makes email works. > >This should not be necessary. /var/mail should have the sticky bit set in order to enable which should not be setgid mail (or bin) like elm. drwxrwxrwt 2 bin bin 512 Jan 13 23:28 /var/mail >>Also, I have put myself in the wheel group, yet I can not su. >>I think it is again a permission problem. Meaning, If I give myself full >>rwx to /etc I would be able to su. You should NEVER do that. I cannot emphasize too much on that. And /var/mail should be either 1777 or something like 775 but in that case, any program that should manipulate mailboxes has to be setuid or setgid the owner of /var/mail. >Very much so. I had little to no problems with 1.0.2. I agree. 1.0.2 is pretty stable. Even -current is too. -- Ollivier ROBERT Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net A FreeBSD & PERL addict... PGP 2.3a Public Key on request Running FreeBSD-current and very happy to do so !