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Re: Making root run fetchmail as a user?



On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:37:46AM +1000, Mark Devin wrote:
> 
> OK, I tried it.  It seems to still not want to run.
> Here is what I did:
> 1.  Copied my users .fetchids and .fetchmailrc files to /etc/ppp/ and changed the
> group and owner for them to "mail"

/etc/ppp is not readable by user mail, at least not on my potato box:

drwxr-x---    6 root     dip          1024 Oct 15 21:34 /etc/ppp/

> It doesn't seem to want to run when I do this.

see above

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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