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From: jos@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Jos Vos)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Permission problem with Elm 2.1
Keywords: permission
Message-ID: <657@ssp15.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 21 Nov 88 12:36:26 GMT
References: <3752@versatc.UUCP>
Organization: Philips Telecommunication and Data Systems, The Netherlands
Lines: 16

In article <3752@versatc.UUCP> tran@versatc.UUCP (Tony Tran) writes:

> This afternoon in an effort to tighten the security, I removed the
> write permission to other in /usr/spool directory: 
> ...
> Can't create lock file!  I need write permission in "/usr/spool/mail/"

On System V systems all the mail agents (and thus also Elm) are setgid mail,
and the /usr/mail directory is of group mail as are all the mailboxes in it.

Look at the mode of your local mail delivery agent and see if the same
trick may work on your system.

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