Re: RfD: documentation for statically assigned uid and gid
On Thu, Jun 01, 2000 at 07:44:03PM +0000, Marc Haber wrote:
> mail:x:8:
> mailbox spool directories belong to group mail, MUA software runs setgid
> mail. This makes dot locking possible.
...because of g+w permission on /var/spool/mail directory.
> Also, mailboxes must be writeable by group mail (Policy Manual, 3.1.1.1,
> 5.6).
Can someone tell me why is this required?
FWIW my $MAIL is mode 600 and it works just fine. Other users' mailboxes
on the system are 640 and they also all seem to work fine (at least nobody
has complained).
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