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From: tran@versatc.UUCP (Tony Tran)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Permission problem with Elm 2.1
Keywords: permission
Message-ID: <3752@versatc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 88 05:10:38 GMT
Organization: Versatec, Santa Clara, Ca. 95051
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 Hello,

 This afternoon in an effort to tighten the security, I removed the
 write permission to other in /usr/spool directory: 

 drwxrwxr-x  2 root     wheel        1024 Nov 17 21:02 mail

 When I fired up elm, it bombed out with the following message:

 Reading in /usr/spool/mail/tran, message: 0
 Can't create lock file!  I need write permission in "/usr/spool/mail/"

 If I restored the write permission to others, then elm worked OK,
 but anybody can go into /usr/spool/mail and messes up the mail messages
 for example: mv user1 user2 ...
 {they might not be able to read the content of these mail messages}

 I noticed that regular mail program doesn't have this problem.

 Any idea how to fix this permission problem?

 Tony Tran
 PS I am running SUN 3/160 with SUN OS 3.4 and Elm2.1 PL1