Bug 520064 – net-mail/mailbase - stage3 image contains wrong perms/ownership of /var/spool/mail

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Toralf Förster 2014-08-16 17:35:02 UTC]

1) It has mail:root instead of root:mail
2) the group is not writeable, therefore a common user gets an error the the lock file could not be created in /var/spool/mail


tested yesterday with a stage 3 build and sendmail 8.14.9

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-08-16 17:49:11 UTC]

Please post the URL to the stage3 image you used.

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2014-08-16 17:59:53 UTC]

errm, did is yesterday night .... the stage is 

n22kvm ~ # ls -l /stage3-i686-20140812.tar.bz2*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176713113 Aug 15 23:38 /stage3-i686-20140812.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   4479350 Aug 15 23:42 /stage3-i686-20140812.tar.bz2.CONTENTS.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      1582 Aug 15 23:43 /stage3-i686-20140812.tar.bz2.DIGESTS.asc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root       716 Aug 15 23:42 /stage3-i686-20140812.tar.bz2.DIGESTS.bz2

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-08-16 22:05:05 UTC]

I downloaded that stage3 tarball just now and it doesn't in fact install /var/spool/mail at all - that should be singularly owned by net-mail/mailbase. The mailbase ebuilds invariably call `fowners root:mail /var/spool/mail'.

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2014-08-17 08:43:22 UTC]

Hhm,

I installed a KVM following strictly the handbook.
Then I emerged mailx and  sendmail (well, not with USE flag mbox, I forgot it), so I rebuilt all with that USE flag.
Now I made the first usual tests (still in chroot, KVM was not booted the first time with its own kernel):

I run "date | mail -s fromR tfoerste" as root and "date | mail -s fromT root" where tfoerste is the unprivileged user to check mail sending itself and run as every user "mail" to see, if I can read the mail and delete it.

That's why I stumbled over this issue.