[Dovecot] mail_chroot problems / dovecot 1.1rc4

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Sun May 4 20:43:14 EEST 2008


On Apr 4, 2008, at 4:02 PM, Michal Soltys wrote:

> Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> Right. If you use mail_chroot or chroot, the home directory points  
>> under the chroot. I guess it might be also useful for it not to do  
>> that, but I can't change that without breaking backwards  
>> compatibility, and I'm not sure if it's worth it to add yet another  
>> setting just for that.
>
> So in such case - is there any way to chroot mail processes for  
> userdb that can't (or shouldn't) use /./ and can't modify HOME to  
> fit mail_chroot setting ? Like system's passwd, or other where  
> changing HOME would/could break other things ?
>
> I know what you mean by breaking backwards compatibility in this  
> context, but in this way, mail_chroot is practically unusable  
> besides custom-userdb + dovecot-only setups. And in this scenario -  
> you can simply use /./ (point being, in a way - is there anyone  
> actually using mail_chroot / chroot along with stripped HOME paths ?).

Could you try if this works: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-1.1/rev/9edaf878bb96

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