(Hope this is not a duplicate -- it appears that I originally sent it to myself -- oh, the hazards of experimenting with multiple mail clients. ;-)
I guess I should have mentioned that joe and dummy are not in a common group. (joe is in a group called joe, dummy is in a group called dummy, and, these are not the real names). _And, I guess I haven't left dos behind -- I meant to type ls instead of dir._ Randy Kramer On Tuesday 27 August 2002 09:13 pm, you wrote: > On Tuesday 27 August 2002 06:17 pm, you wrote: > > This is a little hard to follow ... perhaps an example? Do you > > mean > > > > drwx------ joeuser ourgroup group_directory > > Thanks for your response! I'll try an example: > > Two users: joe and dummy > > file /home/joe/mail/test.txt > -rw-r--rw- 1 joe joe 8224 Aug 27 20:50 test.txt > > dir /home > drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 Feb 6 1996 ./ > > dir /home/joe > drwxr-xr-x 32 joe joe 2008 Aug 26 20:03 ./ > > dir /home/joe/mail > drwx---r-x 2 joe joe 496 Aug 27 20:48 ./ > > With the above situation, dummy could not access file > /home/joe/mail/test.txt. > > After quite a bit of experimentation, I changed the permissions on > dir /home/joe/mail to: > > drwxr-xr-x 2 joe joe 496 Aug 27 20:48 ./ > > and finally, at this point, dummy could access test.txt. That's what > I found surprising. Is it the expected behavior of Linux? > > > A much better way of doing this would be to create a directory > > outside of any user's home directory, give that directory (and the > > files in it) a specific group name, and assign whoever you want as > > users to be members of that group. Then set permissions g+rwx to > > subdirectories, and g+rw to files in it. > > Well, I ran into a bunch of roadblocks in bending Procmail to my > will. Sort of surprising for a system that supposedly allows you to > shoot yourself in the foot if you want to. Best/most expedient > resolution I came up with was to create a dummy user (dummy) and let > him place mail directly into some of joe's mail folders. > > regards. > Randy Kramer -------------------------------------------------------
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