[Dovecot] Public Namespace & ACL & Virtual Users

[Fintec]

I have re-tested with RC2 and dovecot no longer crashes so the ACL
plug-in is looking good, as is, for Dovecot 1.0 stable.

However the following ACL usability problems still exist:
1) dovecot-acl file within public namespace directory isn't found
2) global ACLs (vfile) partially work with virtual users but when used:
        a) non-ACL restricted public namespace directories stop working
        b) permitted users are unable to view or create sub-folders

Hopefully Timo has time to look at these problems after the 1.0 stable
release because it would really help us here and I'm sure others would
love to see access controlled Public Shared Folders. 

As I am not a programmer I am unable to help coding wise but as we have
a couple of clients requiring access controlled Public Shared Folders
sponsoring the fix/development is not out of the question.

Testing Results:

VFILE TESTING:
--------
owner lrwstiekxa
user=virtualuser1 at domain.com lrwstiekxa
--------
Problems 2 (a) and (b) still exist. Sub-folder *is* created but not
accessible

--------
owner
user=virtualuser1 at domain.com lrwstiekxa
--------
Problems 2 (a) and (b) still exist. Sub-folder *is* created but not
accessible

--------
user=virtualuser1 at domain.com lrwstiek
--------
Problems 2 (a) and (b) still exist. Sub-folder *is* created but not
accessible

Regards,
Gavin

On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 01:33 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: 
> On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 13:58 +1200, Fintec wrote:
> > I think all the above problems can be attributed to the fact the ACL
> > plugin ignores the namespace prefix. I did further testing with the
> > vfile using some suggestions from the list:
> 
> Could be, but supporting the namespace prefixes requires larger changes.
> Not going to happen before v1.0 release.
> 
> > VFILE TESTING: ("vmail" is the local user)
> 
> Local user as in the UID of the process? That doesn't matter since only
> virtual users are matched.
> 
> > --------
> > owner lrwstiekxa
> > user=vmail lrwstiekxa
> > user=virtualuser1 at domain.com lrwstiek
> > --------
> > Dovecot Log: child 8872 (imap) killed with signal 11
> 
> It shouldn't be crashing. Could you get gdb backtrace of it? See
> http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html
>