On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Mark Andres wrote:

> [ routed question skipped :) ]
> 
> Now a quick question.  Does anyone have popper working properly?  If so, I
> would like to know what permission you use for the popper binary as well
> as the /var/mail directory.  Whenever I try to log in to via POP client, I
> get 
> 
>   popper[2718]: Unable to open temporary maildrop '/var/mail/.mark.pop':
>    Permission denied (13)
>   popper[2718]: mark@bullwinkle: -ERR System error, can't open temporary
>    file, do you own it?
> 
> I have popper running as root in the inetd.conf
> 
>   pop3   stream  tcp   nowait  root  /usr/libexec/popper  popper -sd  
> 
> and popper is owned by root.  Root has write access on the /var/mail
> directory.  However, the only way I can get popper to work is to set
> /var/mail to rwxrwxrwx.  I don't really want to have the /var/mail
> directory world write-able, as this machine may go on the Internet soon.
> 
	Have you tried the mail directory group writable, group mail, and
	making the popper binary setgid mail?

	Alternatively you should be able to set the sticky bit on
	/var/mail, which is at least better than just 777 :)

                David/abs               abs@anim.dreamworks.com

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