Re: Release-critical Bugreport for June 2, 2000
On Fri 02 Jun 2000, BugScan reporter wrote:
> Package: mailx (debian/main)
> Maintainer: Loic Prylli <lprylli@graville.fdn.fr>
> 64238 mailx: mail program say "Unable to lock mailbox: Permission denied", when $MAIL environment set to /var/mail/username
This is fixed in an NMU upload I just did (8.1.1-10.1).
The problem was that a compiled-in directory was checked for the
"allowed" safe location of mailboxes, and outsie that, the setgid
privelidges were dropped. Hence the lockfile couldn't be created.
I fixed it so both /var/mail and /var/spool/mail are accepted.
Please cc me in any replies as I don't get to read debian-devel
regularly at the moment.
Paul Slootman
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