Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-13 Thread Timo Sirainen
(Sorry about messing up threading, but I'm not subscribed and wasn't Cc'd) > > IIRC, it was a problem for the support of shared mailboxes. > > Index files are created whose permissions mimic the mailbox' permissions. > > The 'mail' group ownership would require dovecot to be in the mail group. >

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-12 Thread Jaldhar H . Vyas
Russell Coker coker.com.au> writes: > > On Sunday 11 October 2009 23:49:22 Nicolas François wrote: > > IIRC, it was a problem for the support of shared mailboxes. > > Index files are created whose permissions mimic the mailbox' permissions. > > The 'mail' group ownership would require dovecot to

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Russell Coker
On Sunday 11 October 2009 23:49:22 Nicolas François wrote: > IIRC, it was a problem for the support of shared mailboxes. > Index files are created whose permissions mimic the mailbox' permissions. > The 'mail' group ownership would require dovecot to be in the mail group. Why? For Dovecot to acce

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 06:26:33PM -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote: > On Oct 11, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Nicolas François wrote: > >>>When an user is created, useradd creates a /var/mail/$USER > >>>mailbox with > >>>the mode 0660 (owned by $USER:mail). > >>> > >>>I heard this causes some issues for dovecot,

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Timo Sirainen
On Oct 11, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Nicolas François wrote: When an user is created, useradd creates a /var/mail/$USER mailbox with the mode 0660 (owned by $USER:mail). I heard this causes some issues for dovecot, and a solution could be to move to mode 0600. IIRC, it was a problem for the suppo

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:45:20PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Nicolas François writes: > > > When an user is created, useradd creates a /var/mail/$USER mailbox with > > the mode 0660 (owned by $USER:mail). > > > > I heard this causes some issues for dovecot, and a solution could be to > >

Re: Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Bjørn Mork
Nicolas François writes: > When an user is created, useradd creates a /var/mail/$USER mailbox with > the mode 0660 (owned by $USER:mail). > > I heard this causes some issues for dovecot, and a solution could be to > move to mode 0600. Where did you hear this? Exactly what did you hear? Is this

Permissions of /var/mail/$USER

2009-10-11 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, When an user is created, useradd creates a /var/mail/$USER mailbox with the mode 0660 (owned by $USER:mail). I heard this causes some issues for dovecot, and a solution could be to move to mode 0600. I would like to change shadow in that direction, with a configure option to restore the p