[Sunhelp] Problem regarding suid.

[Douglas R. Floyd]

> 
> hello friends,
> 
> I am facing problem while sending unix mail as a non-root user.Everytime
> i send mail using "mailx",it says "Cannot create "qfqaa20134" in
> "/var/spool/mqueue"(euid=1077): Permission denied.I am running it as user
> with id 1077.i have checked my file perm for /usr/bin/mailx.it is
> -r-x--s--x.owner=bin and group=mail which seems to be okay.but it is not
> inheriting the effective group id of group mail.
> 
> thanks
> navin

What is the permissions for the mail directory?  (/var/mail or whatever).
That, or some ACL may be the problem.

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