Bug 542256

Summary:	net-mail/mailbase-1.1 wrong permission on /var/spool/mail
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	白川間瀬流 <vamp898>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	monsieurp
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description 白川間瀬流 2015-03-05 13:24:04 UTC

When installing net-mail/mailbase, the /var/spool/mail directory gets created with

User: mail (8)
Group: root (0)

it should be

User: root (0)
Group: mail (8)

Even mailbox itself is complaining about this, so why does it get created that way?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install mailbase
2. check permissions on /var/spool/mail
Actual Results:  
They are mail:root

Expected Results:  
They should be root:mail (as mailbox itself says it)

Comment 1 白川間瀬流 2015-05-07 09:02:42 UTC

Something new on this case?

Comment 2 Eray Aslan gentoo-dev

2015-05-07 10:09:53 UTC

$ grep fowners mailbase-1.1.ebuild 
	fowners root:mail /var/spool/mail
$ ls -ld /var/spool/mail/
drwxrwsr-t 2 root mail 4096 Oct 15  2012 /var/spool/mail/

Check your system if you indeed have mail:root