[Dovecot] deliver LDA permission problem

Dick Middleton dick at fouter.net
Thu Feb 15 15:16:44 UTC 2007


Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 13:53 +0000, Dick Middleton wrote:
>> Feb  8 13:09:35 deliver(<email-addr>): setgid(5002) failed: Operation not permitted
>> Feb  8 13:09:36 deliver(<email-addr>): setgid(5001) failed: Operation not permitted

> 1) Make deliver setuid-root so it has permissions to do the setgid()

This is how I resolved the problem.  I'm not sure it's ideal; I have an aversion 
to setguid programs but I don't see what else you can do.

> Yea, it should. This has been in my TODO list for a while. Finally
> implemented:

Good oh!

Thanks

Dick


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