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Re: Bug#806858 Re: s-nail: mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied



On Dec 30, 2015, at 3:36 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden@yandex.com> wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
> |Hi Steffan,
> 
> (My name is Steffen)

Ooops!  Sorry!

> Well, just as already shown in this thread, on my local box it is
> 
>  ?0[sdaoden@wales nail.git]$ ll /usr/local/libexec/s-nail-privsep
>  -r-sr-xr-x 1 root root 9860 Dec  2 14:45 /usr/local/libexec/s-nail-privsep*
> 
> It must be SETUID to a super-user that can impersonate as all
> users and groups that mailx(1) may potentially open system
> mailboxes for in order to give mailbox locks the UID and GID of
> the mailbox they are ment for.  Usually only root satisfies this.
> I thing i need to improve the wording (not examples) in make.rc
> and INSTALL.

So the fix posted by Hilko Bengen is correct.  Thanks for the confirmation!

> 
> |Thanks for all your help!
> 
> Hm.  Thanks to you.  Just complain loudly if something isn't what
> you’d expected!

Don’t worry, I will!

> Ciao,
> 
> |Rick
> 
> --steffen
> 


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