542256 – net-mail/mailbase-1.1 wrong permission on /var/spool/mail

Bug 542256 - net-mail/mailbase-1.1 wrong permission on /var/spool/mail

Summary: net-mail/mailbase-1.1 wrong permission on /var/spool/mail

Status:	RESOLVED INVALID

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Server (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Net-Mail Packages

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Reported:	2015-03-05 13:24 UTC by 白川間瀬流
Modified:	2015-05-07 10:09 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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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