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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