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From: gpvos@cs.vu.nl (Gerben 'P' Vos)
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Subject: Re: gak! yet another idiot beginner asking stupid stuff!
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Date: 6 May 91 11:34:57 GMT
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jhensley@isis.cs.du.edu (John 'Hawg' Hensley) writes:

>2) mail doesn't seem to work unless /usr/spool/mail and all the mailboxes
>   are world-writable. If I install uucp and use an alternate mailer, 
>   can I avoid this? It's not a big deal, 'cause only friends are using
>   the system, and they're not likely to delete each other's mailboxes, 
>   but it's the principle of the thing.

Maybe you can apply the sticky directories patch and make /usr/spool/mail
sticky, so anyone can write and create files, but only the owner of a file
(and root) can remove it.
Would this work? Is this The Right Thing to do?
Any other directories that would be a candidate for becoming sticky, apart
from this one and /tmp?

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