Re: emacs rmail on RS/6000

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From: marc
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 1990 16:33

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In article <BIS.90Nov10144927@krokrygg.uio.no> bis@ifi.uio.no (Bjorn Ivar Stark) writes:

>I hve just installed emacs on my RS/6000, but:
>When I enter into rmail, I encounter this problem:

>* signal(file-error ("movemail" "Permission denied for temporary
...

In the emacs directory is a subdirectory called etc.  In etc
is a program called movemail.

movemail should be sgid mail.

to fix it, while cd's to etc, and as root

chgrp mail movemail
chmod g+s movemail

movemail is supposed to have (in the latest versions anyhow)
sufficient checking so it will not become a security hole.

Marc Auslander

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