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Description of problem: In order to send a sms, user must be root, as root is the only user capable of writing to /var/spool/sms/outgoing. Can you create a smstools group, assign it to the directories under /var/spool/sms/outgoing and assign write permissions to it? This would allow an administrator to nominate users to send sms without it being necessary to give them root privileges in some form. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): smstools-3.0.10-1.fc8 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. ls -la /var/spool/sms Actual results: $ ls -la /var/spool/sms total 32 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2008-03-12 14:53 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2008-03-13 21:43 .. drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 2007-11-21 20:17 checked drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 2007-11-21 20:17 failed drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 2007-11-21 20:17 incoming drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 2007-11-21 20:17 outgoing drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 2007-11-21 20:17 sent Expected results: $ ls -la /var/spool/sms total 32 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2008-03-12 14:53 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2008-03-13 21:43 .. drwxrwx--- 2 root smstools 4096 2007-11-21 20:17 checked drwxrwx--- 2 root smstools 4096 2007-11-21 20:17 failed drwxrwx--- 2 root smstools 4096 2007-11-21 20:17 incoming drwxrwx--- 2 root smstools 4096 2007-11-21 20:17 outgoing drwxrwx--- 2 root smstools 4096 2007-11-21 20:17 sent Additional info:
David, good catch. Do you need this fixed in F8 or only rawhide (F9) is ok?
rawhide only is fine for me.
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