Subject: shared .addressbooks

From: Craig A Summerhill <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 15:59:08 -0400 (EDT)

I briefly reviewed the Pine Information Center on www.washington.edu 
and did not see the answer to this problem I am having.  Nevertheless,
I suspect this is an FAQ.  Apologies in advance if it is obvious, but 
I can't find an answer...

Environment:  
  (Ancient) DEC 5000 w/ Ultrix 4.5
  Pine 4.10 (pre-compiled binary from ftp.cac.washington.edu)

Can somebody give me a quick start explanation of how to enable a 
shared addressbook in Pine.  I do not have an IMAP server setup and 
running, so I am interested in doing this with local files.

I have a couple of users (we'll say userA and userB) who want to 
share a common set of saved addresses so that they can keep their 
addressbooks in sync.  I tried changing the permissions to 664 on 
~userA/.addressbook and naming that file in ~userB/.pinerc file as 
the local addressbook for userB, but try as I might userB is always
limited to READ ONLY access for the addressbook (when accessing the 
file from within the Pine Main Menu Addressbook function).  This is 
frustrating, and I don't understand why.  All file and directory 
permissions for the file and the path in question are properly set 
to allow each user to write to the file with the operating system,
but Pine insists on blocking the non-owner's write access to the 
file.

Feature or bug?

I have also tried using a 'neutral' third party location and filename
for the shared file (/usr/local/lib/shared_addressbook), but only the 
user with primary ownership of the file in question ever has write 
access from within Pine.

What am I missing here?  The only thing I can think of is that there 
is some kind of flag/macro which needs to be set at compile time to 
enable this, and that the pre-compiled binary for Ultrix I have been 
using off the UW CAC site doesn't have this capability enabled.

Help, please...
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   Craig A. Summerhill, Systems Coordinator and Program Officer
   Coalition for Networked Information
   21 Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington, D.C.   20036
   Internet: [email-masked]   AT&Tnet (202) 296-5098

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:09:43 -0700 (PDT)

Craig,
  It sounds like what you are trying to do should work. Make sure the
permissions for the directory containing the addressbook file as well as
the address book file have group write permission. I can't remember for
sure, you may also need group write permission for the file
.addressbook.lu. If still no luck try running pine -d7 from the account
where it is failing and look for clues in the .pine-debug1 file after
quitting pine.

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Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle