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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Can't su or read mail: permissions broken? Date: 12 Jan 1994 20:48:55 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 41 Message-ID: <2h1nnn$gkk@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <MARK.684.2D340D59@ardsley.business.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <MARK.684.2D340D59@ardsley.business.uwo.ca>, Mark_Bramwell <MARK@ardsley.business.uwo.ca> wrote: >I have just loaded up FreeBSD from freebsd.cdrom.com > >The install was fairly clean. No problems. However, I seem to have a >permissions problem. Other than root, no one can mail. Please explain in more detail? What happens when you type % mail user [ assuming user is a valid username ] >Giving /var/mail 777 fixes it but giving it read/write for the world does >not. The X bit must be turned on. I have tried all sorts of combos and >only 777 makes email works. This should not be necessary. >Also, I have put myself in the wheel group, yet I can not su. >I think it is again a permission problem. Meaning, If I give myself full >rwx to /etc I would be able to su. Logout and login again. The group changes don't go into affect until you login. >Is freebsd considered stable? Very much so. I had little to no problems with 1.0.2. >I am looking for a box that will give lan people net access via unix. >ie: ftp, telnet, gopher, plus I would run gopherd and a www daemon. Sounds like FreeBSD would fit the bill very well. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | Freely available *nix clones benefit everyone, nate@cs.montana.edu | so let's not compete with each other, let's work #: (406) 994-4836 | compete with folks who try to tie us down to home #: (406) 586-0579 | proprietary O.S.'s (Microsloth) - Me