Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:55:01 -0400 From: Mikhail Teterin <mi+mill@aldan.algebra.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: robin@isometry.net Subject: strange file-permission problem Message-ID: <200804151455.01270.mi%2Bmill@aldan.algebra.com>
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Hello! I've encountered a problem, which went ahead most of the things I know about Unix file permissions: dovecot@bonkers:run/dovecot/login (10) ls -l ssl-parameters.dat -rw-r----- 2 root dovecot 230 Apr 13 00:33 ssl-parameters.dat dovecot@bonkers:run/dovecot/login (11) groups dovecot dovecot@bonkers:run/dovecot/login (12) id uid=143(dovecot) gid=9005(dovecot) groups=9005(dovecot) dovecot@bonkers:run/dovecot/login (13) cat ssl-parameters.dat > /dev/null cat: ssl-parameters.dat: Permission denied dovecot@bonkers:run/dovecot/login (14) ls -ld drwxr-x--- 2 root dovecot 512 Apr 15 14:44 . I had to set the mode of ssl-parameters.dat to 644 to allow dovecot-users to login, but it should not be needed -- the file should be readable by members of the group "dovecot" (such as user "dovecot"). And yet, when the user dovecot tried to open it, it got EPERM. Could somebody, please, explain? Thanks! -mi
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