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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Xwindows emacs on an IBM RT
Message-ID: <1582@celtics.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 15:36:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: celtics.1582
Posted: Thu Jun 18 15:36:00 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 22-Jun-87 01:09:10 EDT
References: <12424@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <1581@celtics.UUCP>
Reply-To: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Organization: CELERITY (Northeast Area), Framingham, MA
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In article <1581@celtics.UUCP> roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
-In article <12424@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> galvin@yale.UUCP (Peter Galvin) writes:
->Hi again.  My last problem was with getting Gnu to read mail on a 
->Celerity.  Doing a SETUID root solved that, and thanks for the help.
-
-Does anyone know WHY this setuid is needed?  Is there another way to fix
-this?  I hesitate to have my users run their _very_ powerful editor as
-"root"...

Oh, dopey me....

I just checked with Peter Galvin... it's etc/movemail that needs to run
setuid, NOT the editor itself...
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