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From: gregg@okstate.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Changing ownership of permanent mailboxes
Message-ID: <2856@okstate.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Nov-87 10:59:56 EST
Article-I.D.: okstate.2856
Posted: Mon Nov 23 10:59:56 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 26-Nov-87 05:38:36 EST
Organization: Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater
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Keywords: VMS mailbox owner

I am in the middle of writing an application where I need to create a permanent
mailbox as a privileged user, and then change the ownership of that mailbox,
so that a detached process (under a non-privileged UIC) can read from it.  I
have written some code using RMS to do this, and it works for files.  However,
it does not work on the mailbox, and it leaves the mailbox in an unknown state.
That causes future use by the privileged UIC to fail (don't remember the
status, sorry).  Anyway, does anybody have any experience doing this?  I do
not wish to CHMK and diddle device structures unless absolutly necessary!

Thanks,

Gregg Wonderly