Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 12:05:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: Paul Dekkers <paul@nev.ml.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IMAP Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970914120342.172B-100000@gromit.nev.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970913211748.918I-100000@localhost>
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On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Doug White wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Sep 1997, Paul Dekkers wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Doug White wrote:
>>
>> >> I have a question about IMAP; I installed the IMAP port from the port
>> >> collection on my FreeBSD 2.2.1 CD, but after compiling I get an error
>> >> using pine in combination with IMAP. I get the following error message:
>> >> '{gromit.nev.ml.org}INBOX : Error creating /var/mail/paul.lock.87341562.18.19g'
>> >>
>> >> What can I do against it? I got the same message using Linux btw...
>> >> Please CC the reply to me, I'm not subscribed to the list...
>> >
>> >Make sure that /var/mail has perms 775.
>>
>> but in that case the owner has to be GID users or smth so that people with
>> GID users can create lockfiles?
>> but I don't want to let them put trash to it, is that possible? now they
>> can write over there... :-(
>
>Oh, the other part of it is make it owned by bin:bin.
>
>drwxrwxr-x 2 bin bin 512 May 20 14:31 mail/
>
>This way sendmail et.al. can write stuff in there, but run as someone
>other than bin, such as a user. But not just anyone can dump stuff in
>there.
I tried, but I thought imap wanted to create the lockfiles with the user
as owner?! At least, when I changed mail's perms to bin.users and
drwxrwxr-x theproblem disappeared...
>I made that change after the IMAP problem; they had some suggestions for
>setting up /var/mail perms for best results.
by another way; isn't imap really unsafe? as a normal user I can view the
root filesystem, even with no shell or ftp account!? (and also when I've
an account with limited root)
-= Paul =-
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