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From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm not access files in home directory
Message-ID: <4384@pkmab.se>
Date: 30 Oct 90 17:22:10 GMT
References: <1990Oct24.212255.5138@bradley2.bradley.edu>
Organization: Peridot Konsult i Mellansverige AB, Oerebro, Sweden
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In article <1990Oct24.212255.5138@bradley2.bradley.edu> brad@ds3.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith) writes:
>	Have elm swap the group id from mail -> doe -> mail (and back again
>	as needed) when it needs to create a lock file.  This way one has
>	access to their own files.

Watch out if you try to implement this. There are at least two BSD versions
and the System V version that need to be treated differently if you intend
to switch back and forth between the real GID and the programs set-GID.
(We've done this for C-kermit version 5A, so I have some experience of it.)
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