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Ownership problem on mailboxes (Fixed)

1995-10-17 04:15:42

I fixed the problem described below by setting the variable

DROPPRIVS=yes

in /etc/procmailrc.

Murray

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I have a problem with mailbox permissions using procmail 3.10 from my
sendmail.cf file.  Any mailbox other than /usr/spool/mail/$USER is created
owned by root.  I am running procmail on a DEC Alpha with OSF 1 v3.2 with
C2 security turned on.  C2 may be the problem - if so I need a workaround. 
The info below gives more of an idea of how things are setup.  

# ls -l /usr/spool/mail/trainerm*
-rw-------   1 trainerm users        468 Oct 16 11:38 trainerm
-rw-------   1 root     mail         472 Oct 16 11:38 trainerm.edi

# uname -a
OSF1 hostname V3.2 148 alpha

# cat /etc/procmailrc
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAILDIR=/var/spool/mail              
LOGFILE=/var/log/procmail           
VERBOSE=on

:0:                              # catch all EDI mail
* ^Subject:.#EDI#
/usr/spool/mail/${USER}.edi

:0:
/usr/spool/mail/$USER


Mlocal section in sendmail.cf

Mlocal,         P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMfSn, S=10, R=20/40,
                A=procmail -a $h -d $u                                   

# ls -l /etc/procmailrc /usr/local/bin/procmail
-rw-r--r--   1 root     system       249 Oct 16 11:25 /etc/procmailrc
-rwsr-xr-x   1 root     system    106496 Sep 19 16:39 /usr/local/bin/procmail

Thanks

Murray


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