Hi,

i m in ridiculous problem. here is it:

im trying to add a new unprivileged user and want to uncompress and compile courier-imap from source distribution. so i did followings as root;

#groupadd compile
#adduser comp -g compile
#passwd comp
#"enter_new_password_for_comp"
#"re-enter_new_password_for_comp"

now when i m logging in with username "comp" and trying to extract "courier-imap-3.0.3.tar" I can't uncompress them and not even compile it.

but the courier-imap documentation says to uncompress and compile the source being a normal user rather than root. then become su when use "make install".

so whats wrong i m doing??

Does the user "comp" have write access to wherever you are extracting the files too?

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ok, i kept the file "courier-imap-3.0.3.tar.bz2" at /usr/local directory and its permission is like this :

drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Apr 6 01:16 local

should i change it's permission ?

Thnx.

I wouldn't cahnge the permissions of that directory as it is a system directory. Create a directory under src:
mkdir -p /usr/local/src/courier

Move the tarball:
mv /usr/local/courier-imap-3.0.3.tar.bz2

Change the permissions:
chown -R comp:comp /usr/local/src/courier

For more information on permissions:
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Permissions