On Dec 30, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpe...@web.de> wrote:
> Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on 12/30/15 12:36: >> Hello! >> >> Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > <snip> > >> | -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep > > Wouldn't these be enough rights for mailx to do it's work? > I.e., owner: root, group: mail, sticky bit for the group? > This works on my system (and on Rick's). > > Regards, > jvp. Set-gid alone works for all my use cases, but I have never needed to use the “-u user” option to masquerade as someone different from myself. If you need to do that, I’m guessing that nothing less than set-uid will do the job. Though I haven’t tried it so I don’t know for sure… Enjoy! Rick
