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Date:	Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:10:42 +0200
From:	Thomas Baker <thomas DOT baker AT bi DOT fhg DOT de>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: Cygwin/Procmail stops working after setup.exe upgrade
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On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 09:19:55PM +0800, Greg Matheson wrote:
> > This last line worked just fine for several months, until the
> > latest upgrade.  The command executed is:
> 
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 tbaker   None        61952 Aug 19 16:41 /usr/bin/procmail
> 
> The procmail man page says about the -d flag:
> 
>        -d recipient ...
>             This  turns  on explicit delivery mode, delivery will
>             be to the local user  recipient.   This,  of  course,
>             only  is  possible  if  procmail has root privileges.
> 
> I wonder if the default ntsec setting means he doesn't have the
> permissions to run procmail in this mode? 

It seems to work now -- perhaps because "tbaker" is part of the
Administrator group (it is just my own PC, not a group server).

> There is more about the permissions requirements for explicit
> delivery mode in the man page. User has to be in /etc/passwd etc.

Tom

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