Permission Problem

[Bill vance]

On 8/10/14, Jim Cunning <jim at cunning-sd.net> wrote:
> On 08/10/2014 05:14 PM, Bill vance wrote:
>> On 8/10/14, A.J. Bonnema <gbonnema at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>> On 08/10/2014 10:02 PM, Bill vance wrote:
>>>> On 8/10/14, David Kuntadi <d.kuntadi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Bill vance <faptagon at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Howdy folks;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've got a really nasty permission problem in my incomming
>>>>>> email directory.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As root, I can read, write, rename, or delete whatever files
>>>>>> are there.  Users, however, cannot even use ls, cd to it, or
>>>>>> do anything else, when they used to be able to do all the
>>>>>> stuff I mentioned above for root.  None of the email progs
>>>>>> work for them.  I can see the file listings there, but the
>>>>>> users can't.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've tried chmod, setfacl, mc, and even a script called, "permz",
>>>>>> but to no avail.  I did finally manage to remove the, "sticky bit",
>>>>>> but still. nothing works.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anyone know how to fix this?
>>>>> Can you post the output of "sudo ls -l" of the said directory?
>>>>>
>>>>> DK
>>>> Too many files to waste everyone's time and list space on,
>>>> but they're all the same, so I'll send a short sample.
>>>>
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 cen          mail  334003  Aug 10 01:33 cen-a9
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 col           mail           0  Aug 10 01:33 col
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 cre           mail  396748  Aug 10 01:33 cre
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 cre           mail  378183  Aug 10 01:33 cre-a1
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 cs            mail           0  Aug 10 01:33 cs
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root          root           0  Aug 10 01:33 dvdusr
>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 fap           mail  104223  Aug 10 01:33 fap
>>>>
>>>> I should mention that this is a fresh install of kubuntu 12.04.4.
>>>>
>>>> Bill
>>>>
>>> What are the permissions of the directory? If group/others have no
>>> execution rights for the directory,  they can not see files in that
>>> directory.
>>>
>>> Regards, Guus.
>> Oops, here ya go.....
>>
>> drwxrwxrwx  2 root        users       20480 Aug 10 02:18 mail
>>
>> and above that:
>>
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      15  Aug  8 18:55 mail -> /var/spool/mail
>>        and,
>> drw-rw-rw- 15 root root   4096 Aug 10 01:39 spool
>>
>> Bill
>>
> I think the problem is no execute permission on the /var/spool/mail
> directory.  "mail" above (presumably /var/mail) is a symbolic link whose
> permissions are ignored.  Try this:  Change the permissions of
> /var/spool/mail to 755
>
>     chmod 755 /var/spool/mail
>
> and the permissions of all the users' mail files in /var/spool/mail to 660
>
>     chmod 660 /var/spool/mail/*
>
> Jim

Still the same old same old, no change at all.  Here's what chmod did, though:

drw-rw-rw- 15 root root   4096 Aug 10 01:39 spool
drwxr-xr-x  2 root        users       20480 Aug 11 01:41 mail
-rw-rw---- 1 snd           mail  270500 Aug 10 01:38 snd

Bill