On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:54:48AM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote:
> * jochen issing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-26 09:44 +0200]:
> > On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 06:47:01PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote:
> > > * jochen issing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-25 16:25]:
> > > > > after my recent update to 1.4i, I am not able able to remove any mails
> > > > > out of my spool files. I can open /var/mail/jochen with vim and can
> > > > > write it, but mutt refuses writing.
> 
> Because vim does not create a lockfile.
> 
> > > > Ah, I have solved the Problem!!
> > > > It was the directory access to /var/mail, which was rwxrwxr-x
> > > > and I have been "other". Hence, I actually was not able to write
> > > > into the directory. I find it quite interesting that mutt 1.4i
> > > > has a problem with it and vim and my old mutt (1.3.28?) not.
> 
> Either the old mutt or the old mutt_dotlock binary were setgid mail.
> 
> > no, its owned by root,root. There are no suid bits set as
> > for vim and I changed permission of the directory and everything
> > works fine.
> 
> If there are other users on your machine, your created a security hole
> by this.
> 
> Nicolas
So you suggest me to setgid for mutt and/or mutt_dotlock and reset the
/var/mail directory again?

jochen
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