new Unix 3.2 and permission problem??

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From: Willy Paine
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 16:55

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I recently upgrade to SCO Unix 3.2 from Xenix and I notice some
permission problems for non-superuser or non-root in mailer and bbs
programs.

I tried to send mail out of Elm 2.2 PL8 and Mush but I am getting exact
same error message:

[Permission denied] Can't Create text file to be queued.


I think this is part of SCO Unix error message.  I have some problem on
executing XBBS but I modified somewhere in source code and works fine as
far as I am awared.  Can you help me with strange permission problem?
Don't tell me to use "chmod 777" on /tmp or directories.  This does not
work this way but this is poor security practice.

Thank you...
willy

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From: paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.xenix,comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.elm
Subject: new Unix 3.2 and permission problem??
Message-ID: <8911271655.AA04386@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 27 Nov 89 16:55:44 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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