From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/60774 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rodolfo Medina Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: How to make gnus store received mail in the directory /mnt/windows? Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:18:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <7jenm0rm.fsf@random.internal> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124144600 6873 80.91.229.2 (15 Aug 2005 22:23:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:23:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M9306=ding+2Daccount=gmane.org@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Aug 16 00:23:20 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4nLT-0001IH-DM for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:22:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E4nLS-0001km-01 for ding-account@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:22:14 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1E4nLJ-0001kS-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:22:05 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E4nL8-0006Xh-N1 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:21:54 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1E4mP3-0007eq-00 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:21:53 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E4nJO-0000gF-6V for ding@gnus.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:20:06 +0200 Original-Received: from ppp-23-60.26-151.libero.it ([151.26.60.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:20:05 +0200 Original-Received: from romeomedina by ppp-23-60.26-151.libero.it with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:20:05 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 151.26.60.23 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804) X-Spam-Score: -4.7 (----) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60774 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:60774 Rodolfo Medina libero.it> writes: > But then, no other user different than the one set > in /etc/fstab will be able to do the same thing, i.e. store mail with gnus > in the vfat file system /mnt/windows: > unless the command chmod can change permissions also to > all the files of a certain directory, even those that don't exist yet. > This way, the user uid 501 could make writable *all* the files of > /mnt/windows/mail-prova/mail/misc, also the future ones, and then > other users could store there their mails with gnus. Sorry, that's obviously wrong: gnus wants to prevent other users from reading the files it creates, so it couldn't be a solution anyway. Rodolfo