[Dovecot] v1.0 vs 1.1b re: Postfix and Dovecot LDA

[Lars Stavholm]

We're runnng dovecot 1.1beta1 and /.../dovecot/deliver is
owned by root and has only rwxr-xr-x, No problems so far.
/L

Jerry Yeager wrote:
> In running the various 1.0.n versions of Dovecot's LDA with the
> instructions in the wiki for using LDA with Postfix [on OS X 10.4]
> things went well using the instructions as-is (no setuid problems).
> 
> This changed in moving over to the 1.1 beta. The LDA refused to work
> failing with the error "setgroups() failed: Operation not permitted" as
> I mentioned in a previous message. After reading the exchange between
> Bill Cole and Rich Winkel and following up on this, it seems that the
> new 1.1b wants you to give the Deliver app specific setuid permission via:
> 
> cd /path/to/where/dovecot's/deliver/is
> 
> sudo chmod u+s deliver
> 
> Then things worked as before. There was no need to give the group 's'
> permission nor to change ownership of deliver from the default
> root:staff or root:wheel or whomever... . The error message seems odd
> though.
> 
> 
> I am not sure if, overall, this means there is a problem in Dovecot
> 1.0.n or that things are being tightened up in 1.1b.
> 
> Thanks Bill and Rich for the tip!
> 
> 
>         Jerry Yeager